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investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large …
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Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …-based insights. -- R&D ; innovation ; start-up ; complementary assets …
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stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain … attractive for private entrepreneurs. -- radical innovation ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; investment ; R&D ; risk ; real …We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non …
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can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate R&D investment, but also by a lower capacity to translate R …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …
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There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …
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States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
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of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of real estate prices on productive investment. We build a simple theoretical … framework of firms' investment with credit rationing and real estate collateral. We show that real estate prices affect firms … identification of the second channel allows for heterogeneous effects of real estate prices on investment across firms. We test our …
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