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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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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 and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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Ist der deutsche Mittelstand tatsächlich ein Innovationsmotor?
Berlemann, Michael; Jahn, Vera - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 17, pp. 22-28
Michael Berlemann und Vera Jahn, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, liefern in diesem Beitrag eine qualitative und quantitative Abgrenzung des Mittelstands und zeigen auf, dass sich mit Hilfe dieser Abgrenzung die Hypothese stützen lässt, dass mittelständische Unternehmen...
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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Unternehmenskooperationen im Innovationsprozess: Erste deskriptive Befunde neuer Fragen im ifo Innovationstest
Falck, Oliver; Kipar, Stefan; Paul, Pascal - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 01, pp. 23-27
In der letzten Welle des ifo Innovationstests wurde erstmals ein Fragenkomplex zum Kooperationsverhalten von Unternehmen im Innovationsprozess aufgenommen. Erste deskriptive Auswertungen zeigen erhebliche Unterschiede zwischen Unternehmensgrößenklassen, Regionen und Branchen. Kleinere und...
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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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Cluster und Innovationen – deutsche Branchen und Regionen im nationalen und europäischen Wettbewerb
Hafner, Kurt A. - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 17, pp. 21-27
Welche innovationsfreundlichen Regionen in Deutschland zeichnen sich durch eine hohe regionale Konzentration unternehmerischer Tätigkeit der gleichen Branche aus? Eine von der Europäischen Kommission finanzierte Forschungseinrichtung mit der Bezeichnung »European Cluster Observatory« gibt...
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Corporate Taxation and the Quality of Research and Development
Ernst, Christof; Richter, Katharina; Riedel, Nadine - CESifo - 2013
attracting innovative projects with a high earnings potential and innovation level. The effect is statistically significant and …
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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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