Among available policy levers to boost innovation, investment in applied research organisations has received little empirical attention. In this paper, we analyse the case of the Fraunhofer Society, the largest public applied research organization in Germany. We analyse whether project...

Several European countries such as Spain, Portugal, and Greece implemented austerity programs to cope with the government-debt crisis in the aftermath of the Great Recession: They increased taxes on consumption, labour, and capital and reduced government expenditures to prevent a large increase...

The theory of incomplete contracting is rival to that of complete contracting as a frame of reference to understand contractual relationships. Both approaches rest upon diametrically opposed postulates and lead to very different policy conclusions. From a theoretical viewpoint, scrutiny of the...

Desarrollamos un nuevo método de estimación del crecimiento de la productividad total de los factores (PTF) a nivel tanto sectorial como agregado. Nuestro método tiene en cuenta tanto beneficios como costes de ajuste y usa encuestas empresariales para aproximar cambios en la intensidad de la...