world, country and local market, or only to the enterprise. While innovation new to the enterprise may be only capturing the … ability of an enterprise to use and adopt new knowledge, it is also a precondition for economic growth and development …

This dissertation picks the influence of proximity on the innovative behavior of firms out as a central theme. We … concentrate on geographical and technological proximity and investigate their impact on learning through knowledge spillovers and …

of the single-equation formulations. We provide extensions to existing results on the properties of GMM estimators and … parameters are weakly identified and the GMM estimators are inconsistent and biased in the direction of OLS.We also ¯nd the OLS …

Germany is the second important coffee market in the world, just overshadowed by the United States. Coffee is the most …

was based on a dynamic system GMM modeling framework. The empirical results suggest that IPR has a weak negative effect on …

moments (GMM) has been a popular technique for estimation and inference relating to continuous-time models of the short …-term interest rate. GMM has been widely employed to estimate model parameters and to assess the goodness-of-fit of competing short …-rate specifications. The current paper conducts a series of simulation experiments to document the bias and precision of GMM estimates of …