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Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
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Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477427
hospitality industry sample, I found that cultural competence was associated with deep acting and performance. Openness to …). Implications for the selection (based on openness) and training (for deep acting and cultural competence) of service providers in …
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This research investigates the impact of trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth. Using a …
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-output trade-off and suggests that the ultimate effect of openness on the output-inflation relationship is influenced by a variety … effect of openness on the sacrifice ratio. We develop a simple theoretical model showing how both the extent of pass through … and openness can interact to influence the output-inflation relationship. Next we empirically explore the nature of these …
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greater central bank independence; and (3) increased openness is more likely to reduce inflation in nations with less …
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Do openness and human capital accumulation promote economic growth? While intuition argues yes, the existing empirical … factor productivity that include, among many others, human capital, openness, and distortion of domestic prices relative to … price distortion and increasing openness. Human capital plays a smaller role in enhancing growth through total factor …
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General financial models have become workhorse models in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. These models have been developed and extensively studied by general equilibrium theorists. What makes them so applicable for macroeconomics and finance is the well accepted fact that models with a...
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We quantify the effect of financial leverage on stock return volatility in a dynamic general equilibrium economy with debt and equity claims. The effect of financial leverage is studied both at a market and a firm level where the firm is exposed to both idiosyncratic and market risk. In a...
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The current obesity crisis in the United States is generating numerous alternative policy options for combating the problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages. This literature started out within a very simple...
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