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We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …
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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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We study the effects of place-based policies on aggregate productivity using administrative data on projects co-financed by the EU in Italy linked to balance sheet data. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in funding for a large place-based policy stemming from measurement error in regional...
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This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
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Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …
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public blockchains seem to indicate that the technology alone cannot guarantee trust. …
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&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … automotive industry. Consistent with the model's predictions, higher levels of trust are associated with higher investment levels … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …
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Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
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