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Roodman, David - EconWPA - 2004

The Commitment to Development Index of the Center for Global Development rates 21 rich countries on the “development-friendliness” of their policies. It is revised and updated annually. In the 2004 edition, the component on foreign assistance combines quantitative and qualitative measures of...

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Data Envelopment Analysis in Environmental Valuation: Environmental Performance, Eco-efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika - EconWPA - 2004

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming based method for evaluating performance of comparable production units such as firms. Although the method is already extensively applied in many areas of economics, its use in environmental economics and related fields remains limited. The...

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The impact of downside risk on risk-adjusted performance of mutual funds in the Euronext markets

Plantinga, Auke; Sortino, Franks; Meer, Robert van der - EconWPA - 2004

Many performance measures, such as the classic Sharpe ratio have difficulty in evaluating the performance of mutual funds with skewed return distributions. Common causes for skewness are the use of options in the portfolio or superior market timing skills of the portfolio manager. In this...

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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?

Mare, Dave - EconWPA - 2004

Endogenous growth theory is one of the mainstream economics approaches to modelling economic growth. This paper provides a non-technical overview of some key strands of the endogenous growth theory (EGT) literature, providing references to key articles and texts. The intended audience is policy...

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How Well Do Patent Citations Measure Flows of Technology? Evidence from French Innovation Surveys

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Megan, MacGARVIE - EconWPA - 2004

technology flows. It uses information from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) collected by the French Service des Statistiques …

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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?

Maré, David C. - EconWPA - 2005

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …

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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …

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Cash and the Counter: Capabilities and Preferences in the Demand for Banking Technologies

Consoli, Davide - EconWPA - 2005

trial-and-error and learning by consuming. The key question that is addressed is: how do consumers deal with innovation? By … bringing together a number of threads within the innovation literature my claim is that consumers, akin to firms, follow …

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