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In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data from the Industrial Scoreboard covering the period 2002-2010. We focus on R&D intensity and we assess whether the gaps relative to major competitors arise from differences in...
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In previous research, we analysed the effect of technological innovation, understood as absorptive capacity, on exports …-linear relationship between technological innovation and trade. A natural extension of this research is to use a panel dataset to fully … innovation. In order to do so, in the present paper, we construct a panel dataset including data for 65 countries over the period …
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new competence creation as proxied by patent applications and new competence exploitation captured by the frequency of … launching new products on the export market, and overall technical changes captured by total factor productivity growth. We …
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This paper empirically examines the heterogeneity in the effects of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across detailed product groups. Using finite mixture modelling on bilateral trade data at the 3-digit SITC level, we endogenously group product categories into an, a priori unknown,...
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I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations with heterogeneous final good producers and incomplete contracts. As firms learn about the conditions abroad, the increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the...
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Among the main factors that accentuate the decline of the fruit sector are the downward trend in the area of the fruit farms, their aggravated degree of aging, and the existence of many extensive farms. In addition, a generally valid problem at the agricultural level is the weak interest of...
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The state of import and export of fresh vegetables in Romania presents major imbalances, which tend to increase from … year to year. Even if it is a vegetable-growing country, Romania imports fresh vegetables from countries like Turkey, the …
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