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The Contribution of Human Capital and its Policies to Per Capita Income in Europe and the OECD
Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2021
This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...
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Data Brokers Co-Opetition
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
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The Relationship between Prices and Output in the UK and the US
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Claudio-Quiroga, Gloria; … - 2021
This paper analyses the relationship between CPI and real GDP in both the US and the UK using fractional integration and long-range dependence techniques. All series appear to be highly trended and to exhibit high degrees of integration and persistence, especially in the case of CPI. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235154
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stock Markets, CDS and Economic Activity : Time-Varying Evidence from the US and Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Catik, Abdurrahman Nazif; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the five European countries (the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) which have been most affected. The sample period covers the dates from the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in...
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Quantifying the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2018
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure: a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S.; de Haan, Leo; Sterken, Elmer - 2008
countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274043
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Efficient Level of Seps Licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021
We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...
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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation : Evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2021
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...
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