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Efficiency of Universities and Research-Focused Institutions Worldwide : An Empirical DEA Investigation Based on Institutional Publication Numbers and Estimated Academic Staff Numb...
Bornmann, Lutz - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit's available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem...
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The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms’ Offshoring Decisions
Moriconi, Simone - 2019
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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Vat Compliance, Trade, and Institutions
Morrow, Peter - 2019
We develop a simple structural model of value added tax (VAT) compliance, and estimate it using widely available national accounts data to learn about compliance in countries where little is currently known. International border controls improve VAT compliance, generating a correlation between...
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Slavery, Corruption, and Institutions
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
We develop a model where firms profit from coercing workers into employment under conditions violating national law and international conventions and where bureaucrats benefit from accepting bribes from detected perpetrators. Firms and bureaucrats are heterogeneous. Employers differ in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859047
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The Devil is in the Shadow : Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or Only Official Income and Official Productivity?
Dreher, Axel; Meon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
. 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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Global Innovation Contests
Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023
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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PRC Industrial Policies Postdate Rather than Lead Economic Activity
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Industrial policies are widely credited with upgrading the economic structure of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and advancing its economy towards and beyond the current technological frontier. Yet the data suggest that the PRC's economy-wide investment patterns—with investment embodying...
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