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Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New codes and formulae describing discoveries develop slowly - with little incentive if value is low and many competing opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally...
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more differentiated firms that survive the increase in competition have better performance ex-post, but are ex-ante more …
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We analyze the performance of Indian banks during 2007-09 relative to their vulnerability to a crisis measured using … pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … loan advances but with poorer ex-post performance of loans. Our evidence suggests that access to stronger government …
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-acquisition performance of publicly traded U.S. firms that have been acquired by firms from emerging markets over the period 1980-2007. Our …
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 emerging market economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international...
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quality of tax administration affects firm performance for a large sample of firms in emerging market and developing economies …
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transport sectors. Based on a new firm-level dataset, this paper reviews the SOE landscape, assesses SOE performance across … in most sectors, with substantial cross-country variation. Poor SOE performance raises three main risks: large and risky …
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What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...
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The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and patents in the open-access digital library NanoBank, is shown to be positively affected both by the size of existing regional stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields,...
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