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, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their …&D investment relationships. This study results in identification of factors that enhances efficiency of funds and their effects on … firms' R&D investment behavior. It enables feedback effects on the public funds selection of firms guaranteed. A number of …
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. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had …
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set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …
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stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non …
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … supported both foreign and domestic investment for technological catch-up. It is the only country where FDI favoured the …
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …
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Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
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’s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with … endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show that international integration of the market for skilled labor … economies. When brain drain increases in source economies, public infrastructure investment is optimally adjusted downward …
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