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Joint knowledge generation in European R&D networks : results from a latent regression - index function model
Reinold, Florian; Paier, Manfred; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2012
Switzerland and Norway are included. Regression methods for discrete choice (logit and probit) are employed to meet the objective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518012
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Innovation and Competition in EU15 : Empirical Evidence on the Lisbon Decade and Beyond
Ugur, Mehmet - 2014
In March 2000, the Lisbon Summit set the European Union the goal of becoming ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world' by 2010. This chapter aims to ascertain the extent to which various indicators of innovation in EU15 have improved and whether such improvement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065858
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The IEEE-SA Revised Patent Policy and Its Definition of 'Reasonable' Rates : A Transatlantic Antitrust Divide?
Petit, Nicolas - 2016
The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in the US (Sidak, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a similarly lenient antitrust approach to Standard Setting Organizations’ (“SSOs”) rate setting policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128859
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Pioneer Pannar Merger Impact Assessment
Paelo, Anthea; Robb, Genna; Vilakazi, Thando - 2018
This paper sets out the findings of an ex-post economic assessment of the conditionally approved merger between Pioneer Hi-Bred International (Pioneer) and Pannar Seed Limited (Pannar). We critically assess the economic effects of the transaction in the South African market for hybrid maize seed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110593
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Integrating with their feet : cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Hainz, Christa - 2008
The current economic policy discussion on financial integration in the European Union concentrates on cross-border mergers. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical model where banks acquire either hard or soft information on borrowing firms and predict that the closer firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343928
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When an Importer's Protection of IPR Interacts with an Exporter's Level of Technology : Comparing the Impacts on the Exports of the North and South
Shin, Wonkyu - 2015
destination country affect exports from a source country. In this paper, we add an additional dimension: the level of technology … of the exporting country (LT). This is quite important for distinguishing the impact of IPRs on the exports of developed … intellectual property rights better protect exports that are technologically advanced than exports that are imitative and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024418
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Stepping up to the mark? : firms' export activity and environmental innovation in 14 European countries
Hanley, Aoife; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2019
reveals for firms based in both country groups that exports towards environmentally demanding countries boost EI, while there … is no environmental premium of exports towards emerging countries. The importance of the direction of trade provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314720
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Are OECD Export Specialization Patterns 'Sticky?' Relations to the Convergence-Divergence Debate
Dalum, Bent; Villumsen, Gert - 1998
The aim of the present paper is twofold. We want to present and test a methodology capable to deal more satisfactorily with the question of stability of international export specialization patterns, and secondly, we want to relate this issue to the convergence-divergence debate in growth theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072112
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The Export of Medium and High-Tech Products Manufactured in Europe
Leogrande, Angelo; Costantiello, Alberto; Laureti, Lucio - 2022
Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects. The results show that exports of medium and high-tech products are positively … predicting the value of exports of medium and high-tech products. The result shows that the best performing algorithm is the SGD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078495
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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit : evidence from a cross-country study
Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010
-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more likely to use trade credit than non-innovative SMEs because of credit constraints and that business … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade … credit is empirically examined by using a sample of SMEs from 14 European countries. The results of an econometric analysis …
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