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The limits of lending : banks and technology adoption across Russia

Bircan, Çaðatay; Haas, Ralph de - 2015

credit constraints on firm-level innovation. We find that access to bank credit helps firms to adopt existing products and … acquiring external know-how. We find no evidence that bank credit also stimulates firm innovation through in-house R&D. This …

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Global innovation contests

Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023

This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while …

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Trade liberalization, selection and technology adoption with vertical linkages

Navas, Antonio; Nocco, Antonella - 2019 - This version: August 2019

This paper analyses the role played by vertical linkages on the effects of trade liberalization on technology adoption and their consequences on average productivity and welfare in a trade model with heterogeneous firms. We find that the strength of vertical linkages shapes the effects that...

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The long-term effect of Western customs institution on firm innovation in China

Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024

industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the …

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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020

Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...

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Complementarities of HRM practices : a case for employing multiple methods and integrating multiple fields

Englmaier, Florian; Schüßler, Katharina - 2015

We provide an overview over different literature streams that aim at explaining the origin of persistent productivity differences across organizations by variation in the use of management practices. We focus on human resource management (HRM) practices, document gaps in the literature, and show...

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Non-common priors, incentives, and promotions : the role of learning

Fahn, Matthias; Klein, Nicolas Alexandre - 2023

We analyze a repeated principal-agent setting in which the principal cares about the agent's verifiable effort as well as an extra profit that can be generated only if the agent is talented. The agent is overconfident about his talent and updates beliefs using Bayes' rule. An exploitation...

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Cultural stereotypes of multinational banks

Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2022

Using hand-collected data spanning more than a decade on European banks' sovereign debt portfolios, we show that the trust of residents of a bank's countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a positive, statistically significant, and economically...

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The ifo Human Resources Survey

Schaller, Daria; Hennrich, Jonas; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2025

This paper documents the methodology, content, and evolution of the ifo Human Resources (HR) Survey, a quarterly survey conducted by the ifo Institute since 2008 that targets human resource managers in German firms. While the ifo Institute’s traditional business surveys capture general...

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Dynamic mergers effects on R&D investments and drug development across research phases in the pharmaceutical industry

Siebert, Ralph; Tian, Zhili - 2020

effects of M&As on ﬁrms' post-merger R&D investments and drug development capabilities across drug development phases. This … examine the direct and indirect merger effects on R&D capabilities across development phases. We ﬁnd that M&As have a strong …&D investments. However, the overall effect on R&D investments accounting for enhanced post-merger R&D capabilities and product …

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