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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,...
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In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …
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view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …
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banking on carbon emissions, technological progress, and optimal investment decisions is quantified and the incentives that …
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We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology … actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
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-enhancing investment in relationship-specific assets by signalling creditworthiness and long-term planning horizon of their borrowers. We … empirically confirm this hypothesis by showing that industries dependent on relationship-specific investment from their suppliers …
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ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block …
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ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block …
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activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of …-ups with experienced inventors holding a patent at the time of receiving the first round of investment produce the largest …
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We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs’ types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...
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