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Hosting multinationals : economic and fiscal implications

Egger, Peter; Köthenbürger, Marko - 2015

Switzerland is a prime location for both domestically owned as well as foreign-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs). In this paper, we review the literature on MNE activity with respect to its main fundamental (non-policy) drivers, the non-fiscal consequences of MNEs for various economic...

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What determines international and inter-sectoral knowledge flows? : the impact of absorptive capacity, technological distance and spillovers

Seliger, Florian - 2016

This paper studies determinants of knowledge flows as measured with patent forward citations that occur between 'input' and 'output sector-countries'. We look at the impact of absorptive capacity of a focal sector-country, knowledge spillovers and technological distance between sector-countries...

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Knowledge base, exporting activities, innovation openness and innovation performance : a SEM approach towards a unifying framework

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Gkypali, Areti; Tsekouras, Kostas - 2014

In this paper we demonstrate the complexity that regulates the innovation-exports nexus. In particular we argue that innovation and exports should be treated as latent variables in order to account for as many facets possible thus, accounting for multifaceted heterogeneity. In this context, the...

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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? : a comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael; … - 2016 - Draft version, November 2016

This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm-level data from three countries with similar industry...

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The (anti-)competitive effect of intellectual property rights

Peneder, Michael; Thompson, Mark; Wörter, Martin - 2019

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a large sample of Swiss firms. We find that better appropriability conditions at the industry level raise the number of competitors. However, conditional on the given...

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Competition and persistence of R&D

Wörter, Martin - 2011 - Draft: October, 2011

This paper investigates the R&D persistence of R&D active firms in different markets with different intensities of competition, based on firm-level panel data for the period 1996-2008. In a dynamic setting of the empirical model it turns out that persistence is strongly related to market...

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Global technology cycles and local economic performance

Heinrich, Sebastian; Sarferaz, Samad; Wörter, Martin - 2023

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...

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Has globalisation really had no effect on unions?

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gaston, Noel G. (contributor) - 2005

For a number of OECD countries, the deterioration of labour market outcomes for less-skilled workers since the early 1980's has coincided with a steady decline in union membership. Globalisation is commonly believed to have contributed to both developments. However, recent studies fail to find...

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2006

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization ("compensation hypothesis"). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we analyze … whether globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries, we …

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Has globalisation increased inequality?

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gaston, Noel G. (contributor) - 2006

There has been no shortage of theories which purport to explain why globalisation may have, adverse, insignificant or even beneficial effects on income and earnings inequality. Surprisingly, the empirical realities remain an almost complete mystery. In this paper we use data on industrial wage...

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