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Cutting too close? : design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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Rescue policies for small businesses in the Covid-19 recession
Di Nola, Alessandro; Kaas, Leo; Wang, Haomin - 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic had a large and asymmetric impact on firms, many countries quickly enacted massive business rescue programs which are specifically targeted to smaller firms. Little is known about the effects of such policies on business entry and exit, factor reallocation, and...
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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Digital fiscal stimulus and SMEs : insights from Thailand's Half and Half Program
Athiphat Muthitacharoen - 2023 - This Version: January 2024
This study leverages the unique opportunities presented by the digitization of economic activity to investigate the impact of Thailand's 'Half and Half' program-a targeted, digital co-pay fiscal stimulus-on SMEs and consumer spending. Utilizing weekly province-level data from LINE MAN Wongnai, a...
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The extension of clusters : difference-in-differences evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy
Falck, Oliver (contributor); Heblich, Stephan (contributor);  … - 2008
Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …
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The contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to longevity growth in Germany and France
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010
I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-2006. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation accounted for at least one-sixth of the decline in French cancer …
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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth
Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
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Has creative destruction become more destructive?
Komlos, John - 2014
destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
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The role of electoral incentives for policy innovation : evidence from the U.S. welfare reform
Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2018 - This version: March 19, 2018
We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors...
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