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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level : do intangibles matter?
Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Del Gatto, Massimo - 2012
We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...
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The impact of bilateral investment treaties on FDI inflows into India : some empirical results
Singh, Jaivir; Shreeti, Vatsala; Urdhwareshe, Parnil - 2020
Commencing in the 1990s, India signed a number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), however, after a spate of adverse investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), India has recently denounced all its erstwhile investment treaties. New investment treaties now need to be negotiated on the basis...
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Monetary value assessment of clam fishing management practices in the Venice Lagoon : results from a stated choice exercise
Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Rossetto, Luca; Blaeij, Adriana … - 2003
This article focuses on the economic valuation of alternative clam management practices in the Venice Lagoon. The proposed valuation method is characterized by the design of a survey questionnaire next to the fishermen population. In each questionnaire two fishing alternatives are described. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591737
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Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014 - Draft: February 2014
We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries …, we show that there do not exist any networks that are stable against the addition and deletion of alliances. We then show … that economic benefits from international trade can provide incentives to form alliances in ways that restore stability and …
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Competition Policy and Innovation
Møllgaard, Peter; Lorentzen, Jo - 2006
We briefly review the rationale behind technological alliances and provide a snapshot of their role in global … between technology alliances, competition policy, and industrial policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142303
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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution
Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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International friends and enemies
Kleinman, Benny; Liu, Ernest; Redding, Stephen - 2022
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Party age and party color : new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanović, Branko - 2014
This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
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War and pestilence as labor market shocks : US manufacturing wage growth 1914 - 1919
Garrett, Thomas Andrew (contributor) - 2006
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