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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies : Measurement Methods and Comparative Results
Corrado, Carol A. - 2012
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Measuring Customer Discrimination : Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar - 2018
. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
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Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India
Posso, Alberto - 2019
India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16.Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency : The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...
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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Haskel, Jonathan - 2013
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other research activities, such as software. Second, argument still rages...
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy andAgency Theory: An Experimental Study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within therealm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme,the agent's optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure...
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Does it Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Lee, Jungmin - 2011
their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …
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