candidates. Our results confirm that babyfacedness is negatively related to inferred competence in politics. Despite this …

data on labor-market performance to craete a measure of the competence of politicians. We investigate the effects of the … Social Democratic party in 1993. Far from being at odds with meritocracy, this quota increased the competence of male …

elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of … district leaders in Indonesia were performed in a staggered manner, and decided such that the year of election is exogenous …

growth in Indonesia in a large panel of plants between 1975 and 2005, and especially in plants taken over by foreign owners …

with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign participation in their economies. However, Indonesia has been an outlier … Indonesia and we use the Asian experience to provide some suggestions as to what measures would increase FDI. A relatively poor …

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …