Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 448
Cover Image
How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are tested on a sample of innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157755
Cover Image
The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures
Bogliacino, Francesco - 2010
In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148079
Cover Image
How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Svejnar, Jan; Domadenik, Polona; Praanikar, Janez - 2021
Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317067
Cover Image
Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131420
Cover Image
Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices : Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system.We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085071
Cover Image
Do-it-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended liberalization of a CBD-based product (light cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839052
Cover Image
Vaccines at Work
Hoffmann, Manuel - 2020
Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842048
Cover Image
Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120841
Cover Image
Exports, Imports and Profitability : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123600
Cover Image
Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2013
quantitative impact of immigrants on employer profit, and which employers are most likely to gain (suffer) increased (reduced …) profits as a result of immigration. Using event study analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the profit of … this bill and analyze whether and by how much its passage increased shareholders' profit. The empirical results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092819