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This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...
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The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … than in Finland. …
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In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
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Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
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We develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links between …
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We develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links between …
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estimation bias. An alternative is to restrict individual behavioral functions to be linear in the firm specific parameters. The … form and to explicitly take account of firm heterogeneity. Estimation for German manufacturing sectors confirms that ne …
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estimation bias. An alternative is to restrict individual behavioral functions to be linear in the firm specific parameters. The … form and to explicitly take account of firm heterogeneity. Estimation for German manufacturing sectors confirms that ne …
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-collected historical data on the number of livestock at the local level with microdata on eating habits, health outcomes, and food … consumption expenditures. By exploiting cohort and regional variation in a difference-in-differences estimation, we show that … individuals who as children were more exposed to meat scarcity tend to consume relatively more meat and spend more on food during …
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This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider …
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