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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? : evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408779
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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952002
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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition
Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...
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Adding geography to the new economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498831
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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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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015
This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
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Subsidizing national champions : an evolutionary perspective
Aubert, Cécile (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor);  … - 2008
A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749485
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Innovation and spillovers : evidence from European regions
Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 2000
The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a production function of innovation for European regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781621
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Screening green innovation through carbon pricing
Ahlvik, Lassi; Van den Bijgaart, I. M. - 2022
Green innovation is essential for climate change mitigation, but not all innovative projects deliver equal social value …. We consider innovator heterogeneity in a model where the policy maker cannot observe innovation quality and directly … subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We find that carbon pricing works as an innovation screening device …
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The evolution of theories of harm in EU merger control
Duso, Tomaso; Bernhardt, Lea; Piechucka, Joanna - 2024
-depth investigations. More novel Theories of Harm related to innovation and digital markets have been developed and implemented since the …
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