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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength
Peters, Bettina - 2016
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...
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Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity
Harrigan, James - 2018
We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its bias towards skilled occupations. We use a novel measure of the propensity of a firm to engage in technology investment and adoption: its employment of workers with STEM...
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High-Tech Capital Formation and Labor Composition in U.S. Manufacturing Industries : An Exploratory Analysis
Berndt, Ernst R. - 1992
In this paper we report results of an exploratory empirical effort examining relationships between investments in high-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment. Our data cover the two-digit U.S....
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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Online Search
Chesnes, Matthew - 2016
Beginning in 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed television advertisements to make major statements about a prescription drug, while referring to detailed drug information on the internet (FDA 1997; 2015). The hope was that consumers would seek additional information online to fully...
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Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Add-on : Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey
Alan, Sule - 2015
The pricing and advertising of tied add-ons and overages have come under increasing scrutiny. Working with a large Turkish bank to test SMS direct marketing promotions to 108,000 existing holders of "free" checking accounts, we find that promoting a large discount on the 60% APR charged for...
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Innovation in Israel 1968-97 : A Comparative Analysis Using Patent Data
Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1999
the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for … Asian Tigers' and a group of countries with similar GDP per capita. Finland is strikingly similar, Taiwan's patenting has …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
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The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment
Jia, Jian - 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union in May 2018. We study its short-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures, relative to their US counterparts. The negative...
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William R. - 2020
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …
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