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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms’ innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615925
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265992
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892171
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Is the Rent Too High? Land Ownership and Monopoly Power
Watson, C. Luke; Ziv, Oren - 2021
spillovers through increased markups and derive conditions under which restricting landownership concentration reduces rents …. Using newbuilding-level data from New York City, we find that a 10% increase in ownership concentration in a Census tract is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493010
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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline
Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004
gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261269
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The Adoption of Non-Rival Inputs and Firm Scope
Jiang, Xian; Rubinton, Hannah - 2024
and concentration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534366
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Performative State Capacity and Climate (In)Action
Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024
Climate action requires significant public- and private sector investment to achieve meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This paper documents that large-scale austerity, coupled with barriers to flows of data and a lack of (digital) skills in (local) government, may have been a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534280
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Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2020
Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425611
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The City Paradox: Skilled Services and Remote Work
Althoff, Lukas; Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; … - 2020
The large cities in the US are the most expensive places to live. Paradoxically, this cost is disproportionately paid by workers who could work remotely, and live anywhere. The greater potential for remote work in large cities is mostly accounted for by their specialization in skill- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425640
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The City Paradox : Skilled Services and Remote Work
Althoff, Lukas; Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; … - 2021
The large cities in the US are the most expensive places to live. Paradoxically, this cost is disproportionately paid by workers who could work remotely, and live anywhere. The greater potential for remote work in large cities is mostly accounted for by their specialization in skilland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314856