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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?
Hattendorff, Christian - 2012
The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...
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Buyers' workload and R&D procurement outcomes : evidence from the US Air Force Research Lab
Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2021
Does workload constitute a bottleneck to a public agency’s mission, and if so, to what extent? We ask these questions in the context of the US government’s procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the identity of the officer responsible for the procurement...
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The impact of German public support transfers on firm finance : evidence from the Covid-19 crisis
Gärtner, Leo; Marek, Philipp - 2022
The economic policy response to COVID-19 lockdowns included a variety of measures. Their effects on non-financial firms, however, remain unclear. To shed light on the effect of transfers, we investigate the effect of German emergency aid transfers (November-December aid), a program designed for...
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The effect of discretion on procurement performance
Coviello, Decio; Guglielmo, Andrea; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2016
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The Brexit vote, productivity growth and macroeconomic adjustments in the United Kingdom
Broadbent, Ben; Di Pace, Federico; Drechsel, Thomas; … - 2019
The UK economy has experienced significant macroeconomic adjustments following the 2016 referendum on its withdrawal from the European Union. This paper develops and estimates a small open economy model with tradable and non-tradable sectors to characterise these adjustments. We demonstrate that...
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Dynamic optimal capital structure and technological change
Lööf, Hans - 2003
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Measuring the spillovers of venture capital
Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
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 established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
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Socially responsible investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States : an analysis of investment funds and indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
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The impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on innovation in firms
Blind, Knut; Niebel, Crispin Miles; Rammer, Christian - 2022
consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …
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Size matters : "over"investments in a relational contracting setting
Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias - 2018
The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to over-invest in their companies. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed at explaining this stylized fact, most of them focusing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows...
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