The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry … technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes German patent applications from within the period 1995 to 2006 …

In this paper we focus on proximity as one of the main determinants of international collaboration in pharmaceutical … pairs of countries as explained by the geographical, cognitive, institutional, social, and cultural dimensions of proximity … countries. The amount of previous collaborations, as a proxy for social proximity, is positively related to the number of cross …

influenced by geographical and political factors; after all, proximity matters. To explain how mechanism of globalization changed … trade patterns over the last half century and how - in the end - proximity is one of the most explanatory variables - we … cultural factors do contribute to the (importance of) proximity in trade partners. In addition we also apply GIS to analyze …

Spatial proximity facilitates transfer of knowledge and technology between research institutes or universities (RIU … have a larger distance in mind when thinking of their "location" and "proximity to RIU". Another finding is that the …

childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …

quality of these data. This paper investigates whether the secondary childcare questions in the ATUS are measuring the stated … construct alternative estimates that exclude time spent in secondary childcare that is inconsistent with other data collected … during the interview and find that the ATUS measure overestimates secondary childcare by at most 5 percent or about 16 …