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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism
Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late 19th century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered...
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495766
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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Standing on the shoulders of science
Watzinger, Martin; Schnitzer, Monika - 2019
on science is on average 2.9 million U.S. dollars more valuable than a patent in the same technology that is unrelated to …
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Bargaining failure and freedom to operate : re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation
Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant...
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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : Bell Labs and the 1956 consent
Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017
We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having...
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Are firms withdrawing from basic research? : an analysis of firm-level publication behaviour in Germany
Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel; Blind, Knut; … - 2020
Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...
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Information leakage, imitation, and the patent system
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021
From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer from negative externalities, i.e. spillovers to other...
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Truly standard-essential patents? : a semantics-based analysis
Brachtendorf, Lorenz; Gäßler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2020
Standard-essential patents (SEPs) have become a key element of technical coordination in standard-setting organizations. Yet, in many cases, it remains unclear whether a declared SEP is truly standard-essential. To date, there is no automated procedure that allows for a scalable and objective...
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Global influence of inventions and technology sovereignty
Müller, Elisabeth; Boeing, Philipp - 2024
We analyze the technology sovereignty of Europe, the US, China, Japan, and Korea, representing the world's leading … and direction of inventions' influence at global and bilateral levels to assess each geographic area's technology … sovereignty. The US shows superior technology sovereignty through its leadership in global and bilateral influence. While the US …
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