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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? : an empirical analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

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Examining US productivity: Knowledge flows from industry and country sources

Koch, William - 2008

a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may … purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that …

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Are newly exporting firms more innovative? : Findings from matched Spanish innovators

Hanley, Aoife; Monreal-Pérez, Joaquín - 2011

process innovation rates. -- Exporting ; innovation ; Propensity Score Kernel Matching ; Learning-by-exporting …

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Sectoral R&D intensity and exchange rate volatility : a panel study for OECD countries

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Schweickert, Rainer; Chavali, … - 2009

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper … openness on a sectoral level. -- R&D intensity ; Innovation ; Real Exchange Rate ; Volatility ; Exports ; OECDCountries …

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Globalization and the markups of European firms

Békés, Gábor; Hornok, Cecília; Muraközy, Balázs - 2016

-cost markets is negatively correlated with markups; (v) Higher quality production and innovation, especially if it results in IP …

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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Minimum wages and employment : the case of German unification

Heitger, Bernhard - 2001

Analysis in terms of the two-sector open economy shows that in bringing the market economy to East Germany, West Germany seems to have disregarded important fundamentals. Premature formation of a currency union led to a substantial real appreciation of the East German currency. Premature...

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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...

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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms : a test of Feenstra-Ma

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of 'cannibalizing' sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is no...

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