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Innovation in the supply and procurement of rig services
Osmundsen, Petter - 2014
Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding …
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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024
worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network … innovation network, and the location of British inventors within it, explains an important share of the more rapid technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051728
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Creativity over time and space : a historical analysis of European cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2021
and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495140
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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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Commanding nature by obeying her : a review essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth
Spolaore, Enrico - 2019
Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035061
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Asymmetric yardstick competition : traditional procurement versus public-private partnerships
Di Liddo, Giuseppe; Vinella, Annalisa - 2019
We investigate yardstick competition between local jurisdictions in which pure rent-seeking incumbents undertake an identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely traditional procurement (TP) and public-private...
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A simple model of buyer-seller networks in international trade
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Sauré, Philip - 2021
The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …
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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...
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Public-private partnership and schooling outcomes across countries
Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2006
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301056
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Risk selection in natural disaster insurance : the case of France
Jametti, Mario (contributor);  … - 2006
It is widely recognized that market failureʺ prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster insurance. As a consequence, many countries adopted institutional frameworks presenting public sector participation, often praised as public-private partnerships. We define risk selection as a...
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