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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly …
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question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on the risk that exporters face in destination markets. The present paper … formalizes the underlying interaction of risk, fixed export costs and firms’ market entry decisions based on techniques known … trade. We find that bound tariffs are more effective with higher risk destination markets, that a large binding overhang may …
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The present complexity approach is based on two assumptions: A1: measurability of deviations of outcomes with respect to reference values; A2 : extension of A1 to multi-set analysis. Complexity is then defined in terms of multi-set deviation compared to single-set ones; an interpretation is...
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in DCs), or as resource extraction (which is supposed to be the case in LDCs), matters for the dynamics of the optimal …
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Our study puts special attention to the fact that R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry are formed at different stages throughout the drug development process. We study if the timing to engage in R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry has different impacts on the technology...
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The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...
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We provide evidence that German savings banks – where local politicians are by law involved in their management – systematically adjust lending policies in response to local electoral cycles. The different timing of county elections across states and the existence of a control group of...
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simultaneously risen in most countries. Moreover, the gross profitability of firms seems to be lower in high-tax countries, even …
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Recent empirical research documents a tendency of affiliates of multinational enterprises to bunch around zero reported profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit shifting to a low-tax country as well as a loss-related,...
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Contrary to the central prediction of signaling models, changes in profits do not empirically follow changes in dividends. We show both theoretically and empirically that dividends signal safer, rather than higher, future profits. Using the Campbell (1991) decomposition, we are able to estimate...
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