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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Knarvik, Midelfart; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are important in transmitting technology across national borders. Not only do they allow for transfer of technology within the firm, but it is also believed that they are important channels for international R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyzes empirically...

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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010

We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States

Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....

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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...

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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Parallel Imports and Strategic Behavior

Maskus, Keith E.; Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

The existence of parallel imports (PI) raises a number of interesting policy and strategic questions, which are the subject of this survey article. For example, parallel trade is essentially arbitrage within policy-integrated markets of IPR-protected goods, which may have different prices across...

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Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms - Evidence from the IUI Survey on Multinationals 2003

Hakkala, Katariina; Zimmermann, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

The paper serves as a documentation of the survey IUI has conducted on Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) in 2004. It describes recent trends in the operations of Swedish multinational firms participating in the survey and foreign direct investment (FDI) of Swedish firms in general. The survey...

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Dynamics of Open Source Movements

Athey, Susan; Ellison, Glenn - CESifo - 2010

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …

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