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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor); … - 2008

into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on … innovation. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation …

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North-South technology spillovers : the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....

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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023

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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers

Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …

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Death and turmoil in R&D teams

Thomas, Åstebro; Ejermo, Olof; Toivanen, Otto - 2023

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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level : the case of Italian manufacturing

Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009

We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock of human capital available to firms and survey information on firm characteristics to...

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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya

McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017

A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...

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Capital supply shocks and investment

Darmouni, Olivier; Sutherland, Andrew - 2023

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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018

We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...

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