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established regional free trade agreements 4) EconomyAssessing these above factors, which directly affect the Kosovo market and …
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, it shows how free-riding behavior and process spillovers can mutually promote dynamic competition at the industry level … the source of intra-industry spillover. The main results show that the innovation strategies of the two firms can be …
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knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … several hypotheses to explain this finding, focusing on group internal capital markets and knowledge spillovers. We find that …
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account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation …, especially for firms further fromthe frontier, and that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are … important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on innovation …
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This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to … discrete choice models. The empirical exercise provides evidence on the positive link between spillovers and the innovative … spillovers. This ability not only works through firms’ R&D capabilities, but also through such factors as the quality of the …
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damages of which are not accounted for by the firm, and the second concerns knowledge spillovers, which increase the social … return to innovation above the private return. We show that when firms can reduce emissions separately through both output … and abatement, the existence of knowledge spillovers implies that a single tax on emissions is no longer capable of …
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a change in the number of firms. Similar qualitative results hold if trade policy uses output subsidies, instead of R …
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Technology transfer to the industrial sector for geopressured-geothermal technology has included diverse strategies, with successes and obstacles or roadblocks. Numerical data are tabulated in terms of response to the various strategies. Strategy categories include the following: feasibility...
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This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...
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The city of Susanville, in response to an unemployment rate exceeding 20 percent and other related community needs, has embarked on a comprehensive effort in community and economic development. To improve the local job market, an effort is underway to enhance the competitive position of the...
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