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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation around the World: Evidence from Panel Data

Léger, Andréanne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

positively related to research and development investments, while openness to trade has a negative effect. I also find the …. However, in both sub-samples, research and development investments Granger-cause intellectual property protection levels …, whereas surprisingly, intellectual property protection does not Granger-cause research and development investments. …

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Local Banking and Local Economic Growth in Italy: Some Panel Evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Colli, Stefano Di; Salvo, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

This paper provides new evidence on the contribution of local banking to local economic growth (i.e. at county level - the Italian "province") in Italy. A comprehensive dataset is used, which includes control variables for social capital and human capital as well as indicators of the quality of...

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Intertemporal Labor Supply Effects of Tax Reforms

Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in post-war German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. One central aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. In this paper, I estimate an intertemporal...

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Back on Track?: Savings Puzzles in EU-Accession Countries

Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

After the collapse in the early years of transition, saving rates in many EU-accession countries have recovered and remained stable during recent years. This may indicate that the transformation process has come to an end with regard to savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now...

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State Dependence and Female Labor Supply in Germany: The Extensive and the Intensive Margin

Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper I develop an intertemporal discrete choice model of labor supply. The framework incorporates the nonlinearities in the household budget set and accounts for state dependence in labor supply. Based on panel data for Germany (SOEP), I estimate this model using a dynamic conditional...

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Analyzing E-Learning Adoption via Recursive Partitioning

Köllinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The paper analyzes factors that influence the adoption of e-learning and gives an example of how to forecast technology adoption based on a post-hoc predictive segmentation using a classification and regression tree (CART). We find strong evidence for the existence of technological...

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Industry-Specific Knowledge Spurs Productivity: An Application of Panel Cointegration

Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Using data for 14 OECD countries and 13 sectors for the period 1985-2004, this paper analyzes the significance of the linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic and international intra- and inter-sectoral...

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Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development

Grau, Thilo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper reviews the adjustments of the feed-in tariff for new solar photovoltaics (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly over the last years, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the support level for new installations in response to...

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Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation Performance in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The telecommunications in the 1990s witnessed an enormous worldwide round of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). This paper examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential and the innovation performance. We examine the...

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Do External Technology Acquisitions Matter for Innovative Efficiency and Productivity?

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

To quickly adapt to technological change and developments, and thus remain competitive, firms increasingly resort to the use of external technology. This paper investigates whether and to what extent the acquisition of external disembodied technology affects the efficiency and productivity in...

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