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Public support for innovation, intangible investment and productivity growth in the UK market sector

Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2010

Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other “research” activities, such as software. Second, argument still...

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Knowledge spillovers, ICT and productivity growth

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2014

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...

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Direct, spillover and welfare effects of regional firm subsidies

Siegloch, Sebastian; Wehrhöfer, Nils; Etzel, Tobias - 2021

We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important...

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Public funding and corporate innovation

Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017

We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...

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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe

Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019

A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop a task-based framework to estimate the aggregate labor demand and employment effects of routine-replacing technological change...

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Spillovers and substitutability in production

Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...

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Foreign acquisitions, domestic multinationals, and R&D

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger; Karpaty, Patrik - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and nonmultinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...

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The spillover effects of affirmative action on competitiveness and unethical behavior

Banerjee, Ritwik; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Villeval, … - 2016

We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence of Affirmative Action policies remain competitive in the same proportion after the policy has...

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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? : evidence from Sweden's voucher reform

Böhlmark, Anders (contributor); Lindahl, Mikael (contributor) - 2008

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the … nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … small to yield lasting positive effects. -- Private schooling ; choice ; competition ; educational achievement …

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Gender and self-selection into a competitive environment : are women more overconfident than men?

Nekby, Lena (contributor); … - 2007

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the …

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