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The Role of Human Capital in Structural Change and Growth in an Open Economy : Innovative and Absorptive Capacity Effects

Bye, Brita; Faehn, Taran - 2021

Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...

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Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms

Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization …

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The Rise (and Fall) of Tech Clusters

Kichko, Sergey - 2020

Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...

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Relational Contracts and Trust in a High-Tech Industry

Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2021

We study how informal buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry affect procurement. Using unique data from a survey focusing on these, we show that more trust, the belief that the trading partner acts to maintain the mutual relationship, is associated with both higher...

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Asymmetric information and overinvestment in quality

Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2009

In a standard adverse selection world, asymmetric information about product quality leads to quality deterioration in the market. Suppose that a higher investment level makes the realization of high quality more likely. Then, if consumers observe the investment (but not the realization of...

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The choice of environmental policy instruments: Energy efficiency and redistribution

Haupt, Alexander; Stadejek, Magdalena - 2010

We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product standards, we are particularly interested in how...

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Product quality, informality, and child labour

Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - 2011

This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors. The agrarian sector produces a homogeneous good and consists of informal firms employing adults and children. The modern sector produces a...

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Anti-dumping, intra-industry trade and quality reversals

Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004

We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two different countries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficient in terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger and endowed with a...

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Vertical product differentiation when quality is unobservable to buyers

Orosel, Gerhard O.; Zauner, Klaus G. - 2004

We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...

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Investment in Quality Upgrade and Regulation of the Internet

Baranes, Edmond - 2020

This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory environments. We consider that the ISP could technically provide separate quality upgrades to two vertically differentiated content providers (CPs); therefore, it could...

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