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This study examines the different sources of international technology transfer to 205 UK industries in a panel running from 1979-1991. FDI is found to be more important than trade in the transfer of knowledge to UK industries. The estimated elasticities have a range; in the static model that...
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-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry … spillovers exist, are positive, and account for 70% of the increase in productivity that results from a reduction in import …
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The main objective of this study is to develop an economic analysis estimating the solid waste quantities and optimal hauling distance to install transfer stations in Colombia, according to landfill location. This goal is met by using a difference in differences approach (impact evaluation...
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This study measures the effect of minimum wage increases on firm outcomes using fixed-effects regression and panel data from Vietnam Enterprise Censuses during 2008-2010. It is found that minimum wages reduce firms’ labor size, albeit at a small magnitude. A one percent increase in real...
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Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method to measure the impact of an intervention in health as well as social sciences. This method requires baseline data, i.e., data before interventions, which are not always available in reality. Instead, panel data with two time periods are...
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export activity in countries close to those for which a potential entry decision is taken (geographical spillovers) and … externalities derived from previous presence of other firms in the same industry (industrial spillovers). The empirical analysis … characteristics. The results suggest the positive effect of both geographical and industrial spillovers to explain entry decisions in …
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and coordination failures that generated spillovers and therefore to a suboptimal allocation of resources. We use a panel …
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account productivity spillovers. To this end, by using a sample of Italian manufacturing firms provided by the Xth UniCredit … of productivity spillovers across firms due to spatial proximity. In addition, intrasectoral R&D spillovers seem to have … a relevant effect on firm productivity, while intersectoral R&D spillovers do not have a significant effect. …
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The paper extends a theoretical framework for analyzing competition and innovation in presence of horizontal spillovers …
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This paper investigates whether returns to domestic R&D and international R&D spillovers should be estimated without …-related knowledge spillovers, but also unobserved common spillovers and other effects. This indicates that knowledge spillovers and … returns to domestic R&D and international R&D spillovers. …
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