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The use of space syntax in urban transport analysis : limits and potentials

Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Holanda, Frederico … - 2015

This paper explores the potentials of applying Space Syntax methodology to analyze the effects of urban configuration on cities' transport performance. The empirical analysis takes as a case study the Federal District (Brazil) and its 19 administrative regions considering its urban road system....

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The SearchEngine : a holistic approach to matching

Doherr, Thorsten - 2023

The SearchEngine is an open source project providing an integrated framework for diverse matching activities, especially the linkage of large scale firm data by fuzzy criteria like company names and addresses. At its core, it utilizes an efficient candidate retrieval mechanism implementing a...

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Acquisition experience and the winner's curse in corporate acquisitions

Arroyabe, M. F.; Hussinger, Katrin - 2023

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Using big data for generating firm-level innovation indicators : a literature review

Rammer, Christian; Es-Sadki, Nordine - 2022

Obtaining indicators on innovation activities of firms has been a challenge in economic research for a long time. The most frequently used indicators - R&D expenditure and patents - provide an incomplete picture as they represent inputs and throughputs in the innovation process. Output...

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Financial constraints for R&D and innovation : new evidence from a survey experiment

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Giebel, Marek - 2021

We utilize a new survey experiment to evaluate the existence and degree of financial constraints for R&D in the economy. The experiment does not only allow to deduct the presence of financial constraints, but also to evaluate their economic significance. Using data on German companies, we find...

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Patience and comparative development

Sunde, Uwe; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2021

This paper studies the relationship between patience and comparative development through a combination of reduced-form analyses and model estimations. Based on a globally representative dataset on time preference in 76 countries, we document two sets of stylized facts. First, patience is...

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Subsidies and innovation in the recent financial crisis

Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2021

We analyze the impact of subsidies on R&D expenditures in the financial crisis and beyond. The financial crisis has led to considerable turmoil in financing and, as a result, to restrictions of firms' access to external financing. Utilizing this fact, we identify and analyze financing...

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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?

Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020

The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers and tasks in these markets, it is unclear how careers...

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Intangible capital indicators based on web scraping of social media

Breithaupt, Patrick; Kesler, Reinhold; Niebel, Thomas; … - ZEW - 2020

Knowledge-based capital is a key factor for productivity growth. Over the past 15 years, it has been increasingly … recognised that knowledge-based capital comprises much more than technological knowledge and that these other components are … indicators for knowledge-based capital, often denoted as intangible capital, on the basis of publicly available data from online …

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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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