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Population Aging and Inventive Activity
Irmen, Andreas - 2016
This research empirically establishes and theoretically motivates the hypothesis that population aging has a hump-shaped effect on inventive activity. We estimate this hump-shaped relationship in a panel of 33 OECD countries over the period 1960-2012. The increasing part of the hump captures the...
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Patent Breadth in an International Setting
Bond, Eric W. - 2017
We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader … patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the … North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth lowers welfare relative to the Nash equilibrium. When both countries can …
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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations
Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015
We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210787
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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Environmental Policy Design and the Fragmentation of International Markets for Innovation
Johnstone, Nick - 2014
database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of "flexibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071223
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Does an R&D Tax Credit Affect R&D Expenditure? The Japanese R&D Tax Credit Reform in 2003
Kasahara, Hiroyuki - 2013
To what extent does a tax credit affect firms' R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms' R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073084
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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations
Bastgen, Andreas - 2015
We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024495
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The Impact of Horizontal Mergers on Market Structure : Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry
Siebert, Ralph - 2016
The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the “ease of entry” argument in merger evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of firms in the markets. We empirically test this aspect of...
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Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles : Are They a Threat to Innovation Activity?
Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz C.; van der Loeff, Sybrand Schim - 2021
In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316602
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Does an R&D Tax Credit Affect R&D Expenditure? The Japanese R&D Tax Credit Reform in 2003
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Shimotsu, Katsumi; Suzuki, Michio - CESifo - 2013
To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877675