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Radical or incremental: Where does R&D policy hit?

Beck, Mathias; Lopes-Bento, Cindy; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest …: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and … market failure is highest, that is, for radical innovation. Taking into account that the Swiss funding agency encourages …

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increasing returns and strategic behavior:the worker/firm ratio

vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2002

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Firm size and export performance: some empirical evidence

Gabbitas, Owen; Gretton, Paul - EconWPA - 2003

This paper uses firm level data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Business Longitudinal Survey to help fill the information gap about the characteristics of successful exporters. This study suggests that the main influences on export performance of Australian manufacturing...

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The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...

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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...

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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms:Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

Three dimensions of the performance of firms in Ghana’s manufacturing sector are investigated in this paper: their technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are...

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Does firm size really affect earnings?

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper we investigate the implications of labour and capital market imperfections for the relationship between firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect cannot be explained by either the observed or unobserved...

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Stock Valuation and Investment Strategies

Chen, Zhiwu; Dong, Ming - EconWPA - 2004

This article studies the relative investment performance of several stock-valuation measures. The first is mispricing based on the valuation model developed by Bakshe and Chen (1998)and extended by Dong (1998) (hereafter, the BCD model). The BCD model relates, in closed form, a stock's fair...

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Do Network Externalities Really Matter In Consumer Behavior ? Experimental Framework For Measuring Willingness To Pay For Network Size

Cadario, Romain; Le Nagard, Emmanuelle; Desmet, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

Consequences of network externalities, such as product growth and innovation diffusion, are widely studied in marketing …

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