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The (self-)funding of intangibles
Döttling, Robin; Ladika, Tomislav; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2016
In response to technological change, U.S. corporations have been investing more in intangible capital. This transformation is empirically associated with lower leverage and greater cash holdings, and commonly explained as a precautionary response to reduced debt capacity. We model how firms'...
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The impact of regional absorptive capacity on spatial knowledge spillovers
Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008
We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but only part of it is efficiently adopted in the economy; the share of efficiently adopted technology depends on...
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Space and knowledge spillovers in European regions : the impact of different forms of proximity on spatial knowledge diffusion
Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
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Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?
Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019
A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...
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Measuring productivity dispersion
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2017
Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … through resource reallocation, thereby reducing dispersion. On the other hand, innovation and technological uncertainty tend …
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Productivity gains from offshoring : an empirical analysis for the Netherlands
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007
home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …
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Decoupling economic growth and energy use : an empirical cross-country analysis for 10 manufacturing sectors
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004
exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …
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Spatial patterns of technology diffusion : an empirical analysis using TFP
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
clustered over time, suggesting the possibility that technology levels are converging locally. Estimation of spatial versions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335193
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Knowledge spillovers and economic growth
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry R. - 2002
The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …
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Radical innovation and network evolution
Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2007
This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network …
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