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International R&D Spillovers : A Re-Examination

Lichtenberg, Frank - 1996

Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through the particular channel of trade flows. This paper re-examines two particular features of their study. First, we suggest that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects...

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Killing the Golden Goose? The Decline of Science in Corporate R&D

Arora, Ashish - 2015

Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations … innovation. Large firms appear to value the golden eggs of science (as reflected in patents) but not the golden goose itself (the …

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What Drives Public Employment?

Rodrik, Dani - 1997

Excessive levels of government employment is one of the most frequent complaints made about public-sector governance in developing economies. The explanation typically offered is that governments have used public-sector employment as a tool for generating and redistributing rents. This paper...

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The Distribution of Public Sector Wage Premia : New Evidence Using Quantile Regression Methods

Poterba, James M. - 1994

This paper documents the changing pattern of wage differentials between state and local government employees and their private sector counterparts during the 1979-1992 period. While the relative wages of women employed in the two sectors changed very little during this period, the relative wages...

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence...

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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions

Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016

Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both...

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael - 2020

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

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Learning When to Quit : An Empirical Model of Experimentation

Ganglmair, Bernhard - 2018

We study a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scientific community. Projects are abandoned as researchers grow more pessimistic about their chance of success....

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

In many growth models, economic growth arises from people creating ideas, and the long-run growth rate is the product of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present a wide range of evidence from various industries, products, and firms showing that...

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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments

Peri, Giovanni - 2004

The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...

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