strong, positive impact of policy and globalization on cross-border patent flows, especially from North to South. A …We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and … development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new …

Urban renewal areas are popular but empirically understudied spatial planning instruments designed to prevent urban … decline and induce renewal. We use a quasi-experimental research design to study the effects of 22 renewal areas implemented … in Berlin, Germany, to increase housing and living quality in the aftermath of the city's division during the Cold War …

parameters that shape the urban height profile along with a summary of the related theoretical and empirical literature. Fourth … vertical urban growth has gained pace over the course of the 20th century. Second, we lay out a simple theoretical model of … distances, such as durability of the structures, height competition, and building regulations. Fifth, we suggest priority areas …

topics are relevant for the purposes of policy evaluation, political economy, and the broadest questions of governance and of … implications of resource mobility for our understanding of the efficiency and distributional impacts of public policies. These … public sector organization at all levels of government, from the purely local to the global. …

’s assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially …This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management …

different aversions to risk and intertemporal fluctuations, convex damages, uncertainties in economic growth, atmospheric carbon … sensitivity and damage rate hedging effects to deal with future economic and climatic and damage risks. … incorporates the effects of uncertainties associated with climate and the economy from a calibrated DSGE model. We allow for …

the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the … advantage offered through patent box regimes is found to deter local innovative activities, whereas R&D development conditions … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …

Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I … present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary …’s economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to the proximity-concentration hypothesis. This trade-off is strongly …

market shares. We show that advertisement levels depend neither on the media price nor on the location of the media firm. An … increase in advertising revenues does not change location but only the media price. If the distribution of consumers is … asymmetric, market shares will be asymmetric as well, and the media firm with the larger market share charges the higher media …

location for an affiliate of a multinational firm. In particular, we distinguish between the tax sensitivity of Greenfield and … M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of … M&A investments are less sensitive to differences in tax rates than location decisions of Greenfield investments …