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Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …
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promotion. In this paper, we assess one popular justification for feed-in tariffs, i.e., induced innovation as a positive … spillover externality. Based on regressions with a time-technology fixed effect negative binomial model, we find that innovation …
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We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...
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Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …
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Corporate tax reforms carried out in EU countries since 1980 entail lower statutory tax rates and reductions in generous tax depreciation provisions. Several countries including the UK have reduced tax rates for SMEs. This study compares incentive effects of such reforms on the SMEs’...
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Germany’s comparatively good economic performance throughout the Great Recession of the years 2008/2009 is often attributed to the business model of the German Mittelstand firm. Somewhat surprisingly, this claim has never been backed by empirical evidence. In this paper we use micro panel data...
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innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …
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The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …
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