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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'
Thorwarth, Susanne; Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
expenditure and development expenditure, due to data availability. However, in most industries only (applied) research will lead … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … Belgian firms. It turns out that only the 'R' part of R&D expenditure has a significant effect on patents and that development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298057
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Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany
Crass, Dirk - 2014
Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460701
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Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany
Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122576
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between-country and within-country setup; using harmonized micro data from 18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933948
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Remittances and public finances: Evidence from oil-price shocks
Asatryan, Zareh; Bittschi, Benjamin; Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2016
We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find that remittances have a large positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442041
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: Theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348848
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Social mobility and economic development
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of … that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust effect on the development of Latin American regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698580
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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'
Thorwarth, Susanne; Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
expenditure and development expenditure, due to data availability. However, in most industries only (applied) research will lead … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … Belgian firms. It turns out that only the 'R' part of R&D expenditure has a significant effect on patents and that development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097519
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To Be Financed or Not…: The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Mueller, Elisabeth; Harhoff, Dietmar; Haeussler, Carolin - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298721
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The nexus between science and industry: evidence from faculty inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2009
Against the background of the so-called European paradox, i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298799