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contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today’s internationally fragmented …
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …
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, and different network layers. At the individual level, homophilous tendencies are persistent across time and network … those characteristics. We also document the nuanced impact of network connections on changes in Grade Point Average …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …
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This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to …
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During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal evidence on the role that migrants play explaining export...
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Larger cities typically give rise to two opposite effects: tougher competition among firms and higher production costs. Using an urban model with substitutability of production factors and pro-competitive effects, I study the response of the market outcome to city size, land-use regulations, and...
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What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
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