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In the U.S. real estate market, around 30 percent of listed properties remain unsold. We examine whether unsold property listings exert externalities in the housing market. Our study builds on a comprehensive dataset that encompasses residential property listings in Orange County (California)...
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This paper provides an empirical assessment of the effect of national and international knowledge spillovers on … spillovers are always found to be effective in increasing innovative productivity. The paper then uses self-citations to …;s innovation to both national and international spillovers. The larger the gap of a country with the technological leaders, the …
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Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms will reduce costs, but the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and privately owned ambulances in a setting where patients are as good as randomly assigned to ambulances of...
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Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a whole, to the extent that it helps to increase the material/energy efficiency of production processes and to reduce emission/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental...
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This study investigates the efficiency growth of advanced technology-generating sectors within the European Union (EU). Using a stochastic frontier analysis of annual sector-level panel data from 2000 to 2019, we examine sectoral (NACE two-digit level) and territorial implications. Our findings...
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Productivity of the Finnish private sector decreased during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and, since then, productivity growth has not reached the level preceding the crisis. A key factor underlying productivity growth is R&D. The population of Finnish firms, excluding Nokia, have increased...
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This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel … dependence is associated with larger market concentration of imports and with higher tariffs. The effect on the concentration of … imports is found to be more pronounced for exporters of ‘point-based’ resources, imports of primary and consumption goods than …
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This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel … dependence is associated with larger market concentration of imports and with higher tariffs. The effect on the concentration of … imports is found to be more pronounced for exporters of "point-based" resources, imports of primary and consumption goods than …
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We study the effect of stronger patent protection on innovation activities of firms and firm-product level markups. Relying on cross-industry differences in the use of patents, we exploit firm-level variation in exposure to India's patent reform. For firms more exposed to stronger patent...
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