We use industry-level data for OECD countries and investigate the importance of horizontal and vertical spillovers from multinationals. There is evidence for spillovers through backward linkages for all countries. This effect is much higher for CEEC than other OECD countries.

Based on newly assembled survey data, we analyze which individual characteristics of IT employees are associated with the willingness to participate voluntarily in Open Source Software (OSS) projects. We find that, contrary to common expectations, formal educational attainment is not positively...

Ungeachtet der weitgehend vollzogenen Marktöffnung in den Ländern der mittel- und osteuropäischen EU-Beitrittskandidaten blieb die Entwicklung der Warenausfuhren Berlins in diese Region bisher weit hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Zwar spielen die EU-Beitrittskandidaten für die...

Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are...

Job-Market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why in- dividuals engage voluntarily in OSS projects. If true, signaling implies the existence of a wage premium for OSS engagement. However, due to a lack of data this issue has not been tested previously. Based on a novel data set...