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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015

in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Does an R&D Tax Credit Affect R&D Expenditure? The Japanese R&D Tax Credit Reform in 2003

Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Shimotsu, Katsumi; Suzuki, Michio - CESifo - 2013

To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...

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Innovation Contests

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...

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Union Bargaining Power and Product Innovation: Relevance of the Preference Function

Basak, Debasmita; Hoefele, Andreas; Mukherjee, Arijit - CESifo - 2014

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised wage bargaining. In this context, we show the implications of preference function, which affects the market size. A higher union bargaining power increases innovation if...

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Innovative Sales, R&D and Total Innovation Expenditures: Panel Evidence on their Dynamics

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - CESifo - 2009

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum likelihood a dynamic panel data bivariate tobit with...

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Punishment - and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as...

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Lisbon Agenda, Regional Innovation System and the New EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2011

The EU’s cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....

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Cutting too Close? Design Protection and Innovation in Fashion Goods

Hackett, Petal Jean - CESifo - 2012

Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...

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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies the incentives that developing countries have to protect intellectual properties rights (IPR). On the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that...

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