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Calamities, common interests, shared identity : what shapes altruism and reciprocity?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021

We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and...

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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?

Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …

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Lisbon agenda, regional innovation system and the new EU cohesion policy

Nam, Chang-woon; Schoenberg, Alina M.; Wamser, Georg - 2011

The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and … employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU … for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth. This paper attempts to explain the determinants of the varying …

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Cutting too close? : design protection and innovation in fashion goods

Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012

Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...

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Covid-19 crisis, economic hardships and schooling outcomes

Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; Schupp, Claudia - 2022

We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...

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The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock markets, CDS and economic activity : time-varying evidence from the US and Europe

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Catik, A. Nazif; Helmi, … - 2021

This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the five European countries (the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) which have been most affected. The sample period covers the dates from the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in...

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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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When distrust goes viral : causal effects of Covid-19 on European political attitudes

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020

To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...

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Cumulative innovation, growth and welfare-improving patent policy

Chor, Davin; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2013

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013

causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …

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