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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study

Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

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The relation between competition and innovation : why is it such a mess?

Schmutzler, Armin - 2010 - Revised version

Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....

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Per unit and ad valorem : royalties in a patent licensing game

Montinaro, Marta; Pal, Rupayan; Scimitore, Marcella - 2020

In a context of product innovation, we study two-part tariff licensing between a patentee and a potential rival which …

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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...

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The interaction of economic and political inequality in Latin America

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Robinson, James Alan; Torres, Santiago - 2024

We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...

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Industrial Economics in Scandinavia: 1880-1980

Foss, Nicolai J.; Møllgaard, Peter - 2004

Based on diverse research methods, we trace and map industrial economics research in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the periode of 1880 to 1908. After describing this research in terms of key contributors, we argue that industrial economics developed rather unevenly in the Scandinavian countries....

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Why do firms recruit internationally? : Result from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The paper studies the demand for foreign university graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile highly skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin,...

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Intimidating competitors : endogenous vertical integration and downstream investment in successive oligopoly

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2004 - July 2004, revised July 2005

We examine the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and costreducing downstream investment in successive oligopoly. We start from a linear Cournot model to motivate our more general reducedform framework. For this general framework, we establish the following main results: First,...

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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...

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Dynamic multilateral markets

Polanski, Arnold; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - 2011

We study dynamic multilateral markets, in which players' payoffs result from coalitional bargaining. In this setting, we establish payoff uniqueness of the stationary equilibria when players exhibit some degree of impatience. We focus on market games with different player types, and derive under...

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