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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

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School choice and information

Gómez, Daniel; Chumacero Escudero, Rómulo; Paredes, … - In: Estudios de Economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 143-157

choice by parents. We use a data set which includes measurements of the distance between homes and schools, and the …

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Estimating the gravity equation with the actual number of exporting firms

Minondo, Asier; Requena, Francisco - In: Estudios de Economía 40 (2013) 1, pp. 5-19

To estimate correctly the effect of variable trade costs on firms' exports, the gravity equation should control for the number of firms that participate in foreign markets. Due to the absence of these data, previous studies control for this omitted variable using econometric strategies that may...

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Distance(s) and the volatility of international trade(s)

Mehl, Arnaud; Schmitz, Martin; Tille, Cédric - 2019

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … a broad range of real and financial transactions measures, as well as several different metrics of distance (physical … between countries that are more distant along the various metrics, and find that the different distance measures magnify each …

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Export quality differentiation under credit constraints

Ciani, Andrea; Bartoli, Francesca - In: The World Economy 43 (2020) 5, pp. 1398-1433

This paper studies the effect of credit constraints on the choice by small and medium-sized enterprises to export goods of higher quality relative to their domestically sold output (quality differentiation). The empirical analysis employs detailed firm-level data on product characteristics and...

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Not invented here: Technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research

Bünstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften - 2009

Using a new dataset encompassing more than 2,200 inventions made by Max Planck Societyresearchers from 1980 to 2004, we explore how licensee and technology characteristics affectthe licensing and commercialization of technologies from public research. We find noevidence that spin-offs and...

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