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Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms

Holl, Adelheid; Peters, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2020

environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … over discrete distances to proxy local knowledge spillovers. Based on correlated random effects probit models that control … bands show that the strength of knowledge spillovers that contribute to innovation persistence via true state dependence …

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Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kappner, Kalle - 2022

Historical city directories are rich sources of micro-geographic data. They provide information on the location of households and firms and their occupations and industries, respectively. We develop a generic algorithmic work flow that converts scans of them into geo- and status-referenced...

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The WebAI paradigm of innovation research : extracting insight from organizational web data through AI

Dahlke, Johannes; Schmidt, Sebastian; Lenz, David; … - 2025

This paper introduces the WebAI paradigm as a promising approach for innovation studies, business analytics, and informed policymaking. By leveraging artificial intelligence to systematically analyze organizational web data, WebAI techniques can extract insights into organizational behavior,...

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Exploring the puzzle of human reproduction : register data based evidence from France and Germany

Lipowski, Cäcilia; Wilke, Ralf A.; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2020

Birth rates differ strongly across European states, https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/55902despite the deep economic harmonisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to analyse and directly compare fertility patterns...

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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017

If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...

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The value of decentralization using the blockchain

Reuter, Marco - 2022

Although blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity over the past years, there does not seem to be a consensus if they bring any value to economic interactions. In this paper, I argue that a fundamental value the blockchain provides is commitment. I develop a model of an...

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Product innovation and product innovation marketing : theory and microeconometric evidence

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001

This paper derives a three stage Cournotoligopoly game for product innovation, expenditure on introducing the product and competition on the product market. Product innovation is assumed to increase consumer utility but is effective only if the innovating firm invests in marketing, so that...

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Organizational change and reference-dependent preferences

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2023 - This version: October 4, 2023

Reference-dependent preferences can explain several puzzling observations about organizational change. We introduce a dynamic model in which a loss-neutral firm bargains with loss-averse workers over organizational change and wages. We show that change is often stagnant or slow for long periods...

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Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? : cross country evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Klühs, Theres; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2018

While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows us to consider institutional variation. Regarding...

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Determinants of city growth in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - 2015

In this paper, we examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. We consider a model of a city, which combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, we constructed a dataset of 123 Brazilian...

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