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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … these constraints force export and innovation activities to become substitutes even when these activities are natural …

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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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Innovation and the Export-productivity Link

Cassiman, Bruno; Golovko, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Does R&D spur productivity growth in Australia's broadacre agriculture? : a semi-parametric smooth coefficient approach

Khan, Farid; Salim, Ruhul A.; Sun, Kai - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 47, pp. 5076-5093

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Exports, productivity and innovation : new firm level empirical evidence

Faustino, Horácio Crespo Pedrosa; Matos, Pedro Verga - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 46/48, pp. 4918-4933

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R&D participation and firm performance in the Caribbean

Broome, Tracey; Moore, Winston Ricardo; Alleyne, Philmore - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 17, pp. 1891-1907

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This Paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...

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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses 1985-99 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...

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