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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures: The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...
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Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity in Price-Cost Margins and the Extent of Rent Sharing at the Sector and Firm Level in France
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper studies cross-sectional heterogeneity in price-cost margins and the extent of rent sharing among 48 sectors and 10738 (mainly manufacturing) firms in France. At the sectoral level, the average price-cost mark-up and the average extent of rent sharing amount to 1.701 and 0.368...
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
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Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
Dobbelaere, Sabien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988- 1995. We investigate the heterogeneity in price-cost mark-up and workers' bargaining power parameters among 18...
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Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands
Kranenburg, Hans L. van; Palm, Franz C.; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper studies the effects of aggregate, industry-, and firm-specific factors on the exit hazard rates in the market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We present a brief overview of the exit literature. On the basis of the existing empirical evidence, we decided to...
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Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In September 2002, a new market in "Economic Derivatives" was launched allowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of the prices of these options. We find that market-based measures of expectations are similar to...
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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities. These determinants are … internal and external changes, including cross-sector spillovers, when applying three different policy strategies to promote … cooperation in innovation. The findings indicate possible appropriate (or non-appropriate) policy strategies to be applied …
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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