Arbitrarily designed borders have been identified by a recent literature as an important reason why sub-Saharan Africa … luminosity) by tracking provincial-level border changes in Africa during 1992-2013 with GIS techniques. Difference …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual …

results suggest that regional redistribution of resource rents in Africa is primarily undertaken to the benefit of capital …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …