Showing 1 - 10 of 75
We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003745081
This paper analyses the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770912
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002110265
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002110426
We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … one hand, and also their interaction with the 'core' EU15 member states opposed to the overall EU27 aggregate on the other … hand. Taking West German-EU27 trade & FDI as an example, the identified pairwise linkages closely follow the theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811780
Searching for external knowledge has frequently been characterized as crucial for firm success. However, little is known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms need to specialize their search strategy and that its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824059
We analyze the importance of global shocks for the global economy and national policy makers. More specifically, we investigate whether monetary policy has become less effective in the wake of financial globalization. We also examine whether there is increasing uncertainty for central banks due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884937
The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and practitioner discussions. Firms have to connect their in-house R&D activities with external partners, such as leading customers or universities, to increase the effectiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888039
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471692
This paper studies the effects of political factors, mainly partisanship, on corporate taxes in the past 30 years – a period of intensifying competitive pressure in Europe. Extending the Zodrow-Mieszkowski model by decision-makers who have ideological preferences yields the hypothesis that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914213