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Human Capital and Macroeconomic Growth: Austria and Germany 1960-1992

Koman, Reinhard; Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) argue that evidence on the international disparity in levels of per-capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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Monopoly, Tying and Reciprocity: An Application to International Trade

Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

This paper sees countertrade as a means by which the PCPEs (previously centrally planned economies) and LDCs extract some of the monopoly profits from firms in OECD countries to subsidize their exports. Viewed in this way, countertrade is an exchange of market entry for marketing assistance in...

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Trade Secret Laws, Labour Mobility and Innovations

Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …

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And the Winner Is--Acquired: Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize

Henkel, Joachim; Rønde, Thomas; Wagner, Marcus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage … innovation. In the second stage, successful entrants bid to be acquired by the incumbent. We assume that entrants cannot survive …&D approaches than the incumbent and are more likely to generate the highest value innovation. Thus, the need of entrants to be …

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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...

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A Nation of Poets and Thinkers - Less so with Eastern Enlargement? Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labour and IT jobs. Using new firm-level data, this Paper examines whether these fears are justified for Austria and Germany -...

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Learning and Dynamic Comparative Advantage: Lessons from Austria's Post-war Pattern of Growth for Eastern Europe

Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper looks at Austria's pattern of development and its lessons for Eastern Europe. Austria's development path is characterized by three features. In the post-war era Austria was among the countries with the fastest convergence rate. At the same time Austria's movement up the technological...

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Disorganization and Financial Collapse

Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Recently, Blanchard and Kremer (BK) argued that disorganization has led to the output decline in the former Soviet Union. In this paper we introduce liquidity and credit constraints into the BK model and show how these problems can alleviate the hold-up problem. We argue further that barter...

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The Organization of European Multinationals

Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Recent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of the same European multinational parent firms suggesting...

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Labour Pooling in R&D Intensive Industries

Gerlach, Heiko A.; Rønde, Thomas; Stahl, Konrad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

more likely in situations where the innovation step is large and the probability for a firm to be the only innovator is …

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