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This paper, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research. The special issue features seven papers on corporate...
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Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market …
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To what extent does high-growth entrepreneurship depend on skilled human capital? We estimate the impact of the inflow of inventors into a region on the founding of high-growth firms, instrumenting mobility with the county-level share of millions of inventor surnames in the 1940 U.S. Census....
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, and reallocation of capital. This finding applies mainly for obsolescence of core innovation and embodied innovation, and … profits of obsolescent firms. The measure contains incremental information about firm innovation relative to measures focusing … on new innovation …
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, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using … and innovation and show that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are also important … channels. There is no evidence for an inverted U relationship between innovation and foreign competition. The relationship …
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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …
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This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of nvention based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of partners' human and social capital on commercialization outcomes. Projects run by partnerships were five times more likely to reach...
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, internal firm organization, performance and innovation, which is representative of the entire Canadian economy. Our empirical … particularly striking for innovation, as firms with some priority in business strategies are significantly more likely to innovate …
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We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure uses newly collected data on … our measure suggests that technological innovation accounts for significant medium-run fluctuations in aggregate economic …
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