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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation. One exception is the negative effect of innovation...

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Collaborative Networks in Experimental Triopolies

Pantz, Katinka; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …

This paper experimentally investigates the interdependence between market competition and endogenously emerging inter-firm collaboration. We restrict attention to arrangements resulting from bilateral collaboration agreements that typically characterize real world applications in which the...

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Cooperative Networks: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Pantz, Katinka; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …

We consider a modi¯ed pure public good game characterized by a pre-play negotiation stage, onwhich pairs of players can form binding cooperation commitments. As the introduced mecha-nism only supports pairwise rather than more inclusive commitments, it does not implement thee±cient outcome. We...

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SMALL WORLD NETWORKS WITH SEGREGATIONPATTERNS AND BROKERS

Gallo, Edoardo - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2010

small worldnetwork. This paper develops a strategic network formation model where agents haveheterogeneous knowledge of the … network: cognizant agents know the whole network,while ignorant ones are less knowledgeable. For a broad range of parameters … higher betweenness centrality: they are the brokerswho connect di®erent parts of the network. Ignorant agents cause the …

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Out of Sight: Problem Sequences and Epistemic Boundaries of Medical Know-How on Glaucoma

Consoli, Davide; Ramlogan, Ronnie - Manchester Business School - 2008

characterized 150 years of medical research in ophthalmology. This is complemented in the second part by a network analysis of …

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Are Momentum Traders Different?Implications for the Momentum Puzzle

Menkhoff, Lukas - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010

This paper examines the puzzlingly high unexploited momentum returns from a new perspective.We analyze characteristics of momentum traders in a sample of 692 fund managers. Wefind that momentum traders are “defined” by their short-term horizon, by a behavioural viewon the market and by a...

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise becauseworkers typically do not know … affects network formation, whilethe second coordination friction affects network clearing. We show that those frictions and … arise and the number of matches on a given network.Equilibria that exhibit wage dispersion are inefficient in terms of …

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Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes?The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

McKenzie, David J.; Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the countrywith the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firmsenables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations thatcan affect...

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Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty?Evidence from South Africa

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...

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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...

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