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Testing for Marginal Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment
Altomonte, Carlo; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256786
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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm … domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256053
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Altruism to Strangers for our Own Sake: Domestic Effects from Immigration
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close …-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of productivity is that, in addition to accounting for the filigree composition of human … groups of migrating and local human capital, their interaction and joint impact on local productivity, and (2) to cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257327
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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism
Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257093
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257185
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The Golden Age of Nobel Economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributionsbetween the ages of 29 and 38. The average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of laureates in chemistry andmedicine/physiology. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257405
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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs
Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper led to a publication in (W.D. Nelson (Ed.)), <I>Advances in Business and Management</I> (pp. 1-32), New York: Nova Publishers, 2011. In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of...</i>
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The Industrial Organisation of the Dance Industry in the Netherlands: a Transaction Cost Perspective on Hybrid Forms of Organisation
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Joustra, Jelle - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The organization of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events has become a major export product in the Netherlands. In order to respond quickly to the new trends and needs, innovative forms of cooperation between producers are to be set up for the organization of exciting new events. A case study on...
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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth
Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256370
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In Defense of Trusts: R&D Cooperation in Global Perspective
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We present a continuous-time generalization of the seminal R&D model of d’Aspremont and Jacquemin (American Economic Review, Vol. 78, No. 5) to examine the trade-off between the benefits of allowing firms to cooperate in R&D and the corresponding increased potential for product market...
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