Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police … substantially reduced the number of police stations. Combining a matching strategy with an event-study design, we do not find …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via station closures has on local … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations …

This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences … standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large fraction or even of all countries can establish a Nash equilibrium … full cooperation can be reached. …

We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view …. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from … the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We … two-step estimation procedure, we find a positive effect of knowledge flows on the probability of R&D co-operation in most …

In this paper we analyse the effect of R&D co-operation on firms’ innovation performance. We investigate the effect of … past co-operation on current sales of innovative products, distinguishing between products new to the firm and new to the … market, and on cost reductions due to innovative processes. Particular attention is paid to the impact of different co-operation …

innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …