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Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms’ potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and...

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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...

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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...

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Competition and Innovation in Automobile Markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over …

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Competition, imitation, and R&D productivity in a growth model with sector-specific patent protection

Mosel, Malte - 2010

intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot …

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Trust, Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015

We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...

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Reconciling the Original Schumpeterian Model with the Observed Inverted-U Relationship between Competition and Innovation

Bonfatti, Roberto; Campodonico, Luis A. Bryce; Pisano, Luigi - 2018

Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted-U relationship between product-market competition and innovation. This is … inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian Model, where greater competition reduces the profitability of innovation. We show that …

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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory

Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially … firms respond to a given concentration in the economy. The results highlight that a decline in knowledge diffusion between …

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