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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
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business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …
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data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash …-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely … and by higher dividends in cash-rich firms after the tax cut. The heterogeneous investment responses imply that the …
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more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …
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to invest compared to autarky. The investment levels remain inefficient though. With generation facilities over-investment … occurs sometimes, while systematic under-investment occurs for transportation facilities. Free-riding reduces the incentives … investment. …
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We demonstrate that the choice of the transfer price and its effect on intra-firm trade and investment depends on the …
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significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …
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-period world with identical homothetic preferences and without investment, the global interest rate falls and the Green Paradox … weakens. With investment or a relatively more impatient oil-importing region, the Green Paradox may be strengthened because …
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In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...
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