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Offshore Jurisdictions (Including Cyprus), Corruption Money Laundering and Russian Round-Trip Investment
Ledyaeva, Svetlana - 2013
(namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across Russia and compare them with the benchmark group of genuine foreign … investors in Russia. We further study the determinants of the fraction of round-trip investment in total foreign investment in … large fraction of round-trip investment in Russia is concentrated in real estate and financial sectors, our results point to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082421
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Crises in Emerging Market Economies : A Global Perspective
Calvo, Guillermo A. - 2021
The paper argues that global financial factors played an important role in the capital-inflow episode in Emerging Market economies (EMs), during the early part of the 1990s, and clearly in the Sudden Stop (of capital inflows) crises that took place after the 1998 Russian crisis. Moreover, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313675
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Why is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2011
In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130976
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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects : The Mincer Equation and Beyond
Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; Todd, Petra - 2022
This paper considers the interpretation of "Mincer rates of return." We test and reject the Mincer model. It fails to track the time series of true returns. We show how repeated cross section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the ex ante and ex post marginal rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063044
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Two Paths to Abstract Art : Kandinsky and Malevich
Galenson, David W. - 2020
Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both great Russian painters who became pioneers of abstract art during the second decade of the twentieth century. Yet the forms of their art differed radically, as did their artistic methods and goals. Kandinsky, an experimental artist, approached...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833258
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
explain international technology diffusion is genetic distance relative to the world technological frontier ("relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114316
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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114981
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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production : Two Centuries of International Evidence
Madsen, Jakob B. - 2012
Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099411
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064941
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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
Delcamp, Henry - 2014
We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members … enables influencing peers' innovation strategies related to compatibility standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065932