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mathematical literacy and curriculum-based knowledge. The findings indicate that central exit exams only improve curriculum …-based knowledge but do not affect mathematical literacy. Moreover, teachers in German states with central exit examinations are more …
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endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …
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we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular … focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding …
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This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge … spillovers between the energy and the non-energy sector, we show that the combination between environmental and knowledge … internalisation of knowledge externalities. Moreover, we show that implementing technology policy as a substitute for stabilisation …
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Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...
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This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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This paper examines a life-cycle cost concept that applies to both manufacturing and service industries in which upfront capacity investments are essential. Borrowing from the energy literature, we refer to this cost measure as the levelized product cost (LC). Per unit of output, the levelized...
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institutions compared to situations of individual decision-making. Intelligence, female gender, and the existence of siblings …
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We designed four observational learning experiments to identify the key channels that, along with Bayes-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in turn by subjects endowed with private signals of...
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implemented. Fama & Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation …
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