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greatest explosion of financial innovation the world had ever seen. Financial fragility grew until the economy collapsed into … the global financial crisis. At the same time, we saw that much (or even most) of the financial innovation was directed … attention to increasing funding of the innovation process. For that reason, we will look not only to Minsky's ideas on the …
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specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the globalization of innovation. Based on recent … reference model for chances and challenges of global innovation activities. …
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the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance … led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as …
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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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We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …
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at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …
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This paper develops a theoretical model of the inequality in wages and salaries associated with differences in years of schooling (educational inequality, for short). Our model assumes that in the long run individual decisions to become more educated equalize the lifetime earnings of more...
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Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …
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combine the best aspects of innovation races and research tournaments. …
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We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...
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