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Revisiting the finance and growth nexus : a deeper look at sectors and instruments

Unger, Robert - 2019

This paper investigates empirically whether the relation between finance and growth depends on a specific type of financing. I construct a novel panel data set for 34 high income countries over the time period from 1995 to 2014 based on financial accounts data. It allows distinguishing between...

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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development

Hattendorff, Christian - 2014

The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...

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The role of financial development in private sector growth in Saudi Arabia

Hasanov, Fakhri J.; Darandary, Abdulelah; Alyamani, Ryan - 2023

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Ancestry, Diversity & Finance : Evidence from Transition Economies

Dombi, Akos; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2017

In this paper, we analyze the growth effects of historical and biological ancestry, diversity and financial development in transition economies. We show that the common indicators of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, state history and genetic distance yield significant results and to some...

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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998

on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … innovating firms introduced innovations between 1993 and 1995 that would not have been developed without public research. These … ability to absorb the findings of public research and turn them into innovations. Contrary to the widely held opinion that …

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Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems

Spielkamp, Alfred; Vopel, Katrin - 1998

innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … knowledge into innovations that bring economic success. …

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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services: an empirical assesssment of alternative approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...

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Technology transfer and the Internet : a chance for outsiders at public science to get into the business?

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001

The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the determinants of firm contacts established via the...

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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?

Hattendorff, Christian - 2012

The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...

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Antiquity and capitalism : the finance-growth perspective

Dombi, Akos; Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Zhu, Junbing - 2020

This paper explores the impact of antiquity on capitalism through the finance-growth nexus. We define antiquity as the length of established statehood (i.e., state history) and agricultural years. We argue that extractive institutions and deeply entrenched interest groups may prevail in...

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