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. Competition among hospitals and knowledge spillovers generate significant externalities which we try to capture using the spatial …
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spillovers and imperfections in the demand for energy efficiency. We conclude that some technology policies, particularly …
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effectiveness for the home country and their spillovers to other countries. We develop a model to show that under these …
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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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methods typically do not account for general equilibrium spillover effects. I outline a method that estimates spillovers … operating among groups of firms and households. I argue that the presence of multiple types of spillovers, measurement error … functional forms can overcome different sources of bias. The analysis is particularly relevant to the estimation of spillovers …
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This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … difference between spillovers from foreign-owned units and from units which participate at global markets through exporting in … comparison to domestically-owned and non-exporting units. We find evidence of stronger spillovers from exporting firms than from …
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This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the … public ownership. We introduce spatial spillovers in total factor productivity through contextual effects of observable …, that our estimation procedure performs well in small samples. We find evidence of positive spillovers across chemical …
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We first study the dynamic drivers of expenditure on long-term care (LTC) programs, and more specifically, the effects of labour market participation of traditional unpaid caregivers (women aged 40 and older) on LTC spending. Second, we examine spillover effects of a rise on LTC expenditure on...
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We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting … activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of … spillovers, indicating that venture capital fosters the commercialization of technologies. Methodologically, we contribute by …
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innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …
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