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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence

Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021

This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on...

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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016

According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...

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Temporary super depreciation allowances for green and digital investments

Funke, Michael; Terasa, Raphael - 2022

As an incentive to increase high-impact investment and boost growth, the German Federal Government is planning to introduce a targeted temporary super depreciation allowance to support much-needed green and digital transitions. Using a calibrated multi-sector DSGE model, we find that the...

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Aligning profit taxation with value creation

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2019

The OECD seeks to align transfer pricing and profit taxation with value creation but fails to provide a clear definition. This paper argues that value creation requires international cooperation and that the profit tax base should therefore be allocated according to standards commonly considered...

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The adoption of non-rival inputs and firm scope

Jiang, Xian; Rubinton, Hannah - 2024

Custom software is distinct from other types of capital in that it is non-rival—once a firm makes an investment in custom software, it can be used simultaneously across its many establishments. Using confidential US Census data, we document that while firms with more establishments are more...

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 50 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...

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Government funding of university-industry collaboration : exploring the impact of targeted funding on university patent activity

Nugent, Annita; Chan, Ho Fai; Dulleck, Uwe - 2019

of economic benefit by patent applications filed and granted. Interrogating the effect of targeted funding at a … university level we find award of U-I targeted grants coincides with increased patent activity compared to non-targeted grants …. Exploring the dynamics of the relationship, we observe the effect of U-I targeted grants on patent activity is short lived at an …

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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...

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Firm size and diversification : asymmetric multiproduct firms under Cournot competition

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...

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The effect of regulatory harmonization on cross-border labor migration : evidence from the accounting profession

Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; Christensen, … - 2015

The paper examines whether international regulatory harmonization increases cross-border labor migration. To study this question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers,...

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