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This paper explores the impact of cyclical macroeconomic fluctuations on corporate R&D spending. Most existing studies are conducted at the industry or firm level and find procyclical corporate R&D. Some of these studies also provide evidence suggesting credit constraints play an important role...
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This paper employs a hazard model to analyse the impact of education and two types of prison employment programmes on recidivism over a ten-year period for 4515 prisoners released from Ohio prisons in 1992. Estimations with a Weibull mixture model and propensity score approach provide two means...
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The endogenous innovation research program is one of the most important theoretical agendas in modern growth theory. Progress, however, has been slowed due to an apparent empirical anomaly. In their simplest and most appealing forms the models suggest a scale effect that seems inconsistent with...
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Adam Smith's theory of the gains from trade has caused controversy among economic theorists. Throughout much his work Smith argues that markets efficiently allocate resources. Smith's treatment of the gains from trade, however, is considered inconsistent with this system of natural liberty. This...
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