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Opening Up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of 'Bottom-Up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach – soliciting a particular technology – or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation...
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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D : An Introduction Based on the European Experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro - 2014
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
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Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-Overs in Firms
Böheim, René - 2014
We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …
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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2009
inventors crowd out native inventors, or an underestimate if immigrants have positive spill-overs on inventors. Using a 1940 …-2000 state panel, we show that immigrants do have positive spill-overs, resulting in an increase in patents per capita of 9 …
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies : Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2013
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...
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Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2005
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988-1995. We investigate the heterogeneity in price-cost mark-up and workers' bargaining power parameters among 18...
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Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2015
Institutions, social norms and the nature of industrial relations vary greatly between Latin American and Western European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape firms' operational environment in general and the type of competition in product and labor markets...
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Macroeconomic Derivatives : An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2011
In September 2002, a new market in Economic Derivatives was launched allowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of the prices of these options. We find that market-based measures of expectations are similar to...
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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Heshmati, Almas - 2013
' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities.These determinants are … internal and external changes, including cross-sector spillovers, when applying three different policy strategies to promote … cooperation in innovation. The findings indicate possible appropriate (or non-appropriate) policy strategies to be applied …
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