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We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the EuropeanPatent Office (EPO). Our data contain … information related to the patent’seconomic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novelcitation measures … the patent grant by the examiner or an actual patent grant.Highly cited applications are approved faster by the EPO than …
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for short) of 9,017 patents granted by theEuropean Patent Office (EPO) between 1993 and 1997, located in France, Germany …
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... Im Gegensatz zu traditionellen industriesoziologischen Ansätzenbleibt die Beschäftigtenperspektive weitgehend aus der Debatte über globale Kooperationen ausgeklammert. Diese Forschungslücke immerhin zu verkleinern, ist Ziel der vorliegenden Fallstudie.
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... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...
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We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the license raj - a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector - vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations and different nancial development. To guide...
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quality health care in India. This paper looks at the implementation of the scheme in Karnataka, drawing on a large survey of …
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This paper analyzes how preferences for a non-economic characteristic, such as caste, canaffect equilibrium patterns of matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We develop a model thatdemonstrates how the...
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productivity in India. We find that, overall for all states, land-reform legislation had anegative and significant effect on … land reform had a marginal positive effect relative to the rest of India.[...] …
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We construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment between the incumbent parties at the central and state...
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