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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms : A Regional Investigation
Iammarino, Simona - 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763920
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082136
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An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007
Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777599
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Defending Gibrat's Law as a Long-Run Regularity
Lotti, Francesca; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021
According to Gibrat's Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, more recent research generally rejects it. This paper reconciles these two streams of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317119
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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures : The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2011
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120139
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071741
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Time is on My Side : Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2018
total factor productivity. We provide empirical evidence in line with the predictions of our theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923240
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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - 2021
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but … leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … integration or non-integration is optimal. Our theory thus provides a simple answer to Williamson's "selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317478
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Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages : New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements
Devicienti, Francesco; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2022
Using uniquely rich administrative matched employer-employee data, we investigate the impact of formal network agreements (FNAs) among firms under two perspectives. First, we assess the impact of joining a FNA on several indicators of firm performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244275
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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Du Caju, Philip - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127724