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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2024
-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model … identifies the impact of innovation, imitation and R&D costs on firms' R&D decisions. R&D costs gained importance in Switzerland … prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. …
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Defensive Innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406885
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Information and learning in oligopoly : an experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita - 2013
This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited a priori information. The econometrics hinges on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683019
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Traits, imitation, and evolutionary dynamics
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784254
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Artificial intelligence and reduced SMEs' business risks : a dynamic capabilities analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was developed to capture the use of AI applications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822083
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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings : a marginal treatment effects approach
Arias, Omar (contributor); Khamis, Melanie (contributor) - 2008
This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793731
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794077
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Pfister, Annika - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
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Innovation, inequality and a golden rule for growth in an economy with Cobb-Douglas function and an R&D sector
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2015
capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510592