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The effects of privatization on R&D investments and patent productivity
Munari, Federico; Sobrero, Maurizio - 2002
's principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597627
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Corporate governance practices and companies' R&D orientation : evidence from European countries
Honoré, Florence; Munari, Federico; Van Pottelsberghe … - 2011
This paper empirically investigates if corporate governance practices affect the resources firms devote to R&D. Two databases - one on governance ratings and the other on R&D intensity - are merged to obtain a multi-country, multi-sector sample of 279 European companies involved in R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907733
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Regional location of business sector research and development
Eliasson, Kent; Hansson, Pär; Lindvert, Markus - 2024
In the paper, we break down business sector R&D at an appropriate regional level (functional analysis regions, FA-regions) in Sweden. We describe the variation and development at the regional level. In an econometric analysis, we examine what affects the location and size of enterprise groups'...
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Clean and dirty international technology diffusion
Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - 2013
clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively … of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756305
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Productivity spillovers from FDI : a firm-level cross-country analysis
Ahn, JaeBin; Aiyar, Shekhar; Presbitero, Andrea - 2024
This paper provides cross-country firm-level evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI), separately for greenfield FDI and crossborder mergers and acquisitions (M&As). The granularity of bilateral sector-level FDI datasets allows for addressing possible endogeneity...
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Privatization and R&D performance : an empirical analysis based on Tobin's q
Munari, Federico; Oriani, Raffaele - 2002
data of 40 firms, including 20 firms privatized through public share offering in different countries of Western Europe over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597652
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Export, sssembly-line FDI or FDI with the possibility of technology diffusion : optimal entry mode for multinationals
Banerjee, Tanmoyee; Mitra, Nilanjana - 2008
The paper tries to evaluate the optimal entry mode of a Multinational Company that is choosing among export, fragmented production structure with assembly-line FDI in LDC or complete production in LDC with FDI. The results show that if the plant installation cost is sufficiently high then the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773053
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Economic sentiment indicators and foreign direct investment : empirical evidence from European Union countries
Cieślik, Andrzej; Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021
This paper studies the role of business sentiment in the decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to undertake foreign direct investment (FDI) across European Union (EU) member states. Based on the knowledge-capital model, the study employs the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589358
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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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An alternative formulation of the Devereux-Griffith effective average tax rates for international investment
Römisch, Roman (contributor); Leibrecht, Markus (contributor) - 2006
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