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(Trade) war and peace : how to impose international trade sanctions

Souza, Gustavo Moreira de; Hu, Naiyuan; Li, Haishi; … - 2023

Trade sanctions are a common instrument of diplomatic retaliation. To guide current and future policy, we ask: What is the most cost-efficient way to impose trade sanctions against Russia? We build a quantitative model of international trade with input-output connections. Sanctioning countries...

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Growing together : Croatia and Latvia

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010

We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 … governance, and institutional reforms have played a significant role in raising economic output and efficiency in both Croatia … and Latvia. The EU perspective made a more significant contribution to growth in Latvia than in Croatia, even if Latvia …

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Old-age provision in transition : the case of Croatia

Werding, Martin; Primorac, Marko - 2016

The Croatian system of old-age provision comprises a traditional public pay-as-you-go scheme and a mandatory funded scheme ("second pillar") that will provide increasing amounts of supplementary pensions to those entering retirement in the future. Due to the continuing economic crisis, the...

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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?

D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...

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Trade, wages, and profits

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

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O brother, where start thou? : sibling spillovers on college and major choice in four countries

Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2020 - Latest version: May 10, 2020

options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …

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Pharmaceutical patents : incentives for R&D or marketing?

Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2008

We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R&D investments in new (differentiated) drugs, and thereby affect the probability distribution of future market structures in the industry. Within a fairly general model framework,...

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Innovative sales, R&D and total innovation expenditures : panel evidence on their dynamics

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2009

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum likelihood a dynamic panel data bivariate tobit with...

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Innovation and trade with heterogeneous firms

Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - 2009

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. Among the robust results that hold...

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The patterns of inter-firm and inter-industry knowledge flows in the Netherlands

Plasmans, Joseph E. J.; Lukach, Ruslan - 2010

This paper presents a study of backward and forward patent citations in patents granted to firms and institutions in the Netherlands by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The study establishes different patterns of patent citation in recent Dutch patents belonging to...

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