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Keep calm and carry on : the short- vs. long-run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance

Cassar, Lea; Fischer, Mira; Valero, Vanessa - 2022

, such as performance. We address this question through a field experiment in an educational setting. We study the causal … impact of mindfulness meditation on academic performance through a randomized evaluation of a well-known 8-week mindfulness … and non-cognitive skills. However, it takes time before students' performance can benefit from mindfulness meditation: we …

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Who creates and who bears flow externalities in mutual funds?

Fricke, Daniel; Jank, Stephan; Wilke, Hannes - 2022

investor groups contribute to the negative performance externality from large outflows. Investment funds, as holders of mutual …-sophisticated ones, are the main receivers. These differences are due to investment funds reacting more strongly on past performance and …

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Acquisitions, management and efficiency in Rwanda's coffee industry

Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - 2022

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Technological learning systems, competitiveness and development

Viotti, Eduardo Baumgratz - 2015

performance. The paper is concluded by presenting some implications of its analysis for S&T policies for developing economies. …

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Growth impacts of the exchange rate and technology

Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro - 2016

The aim of this paper is to assess whether the impacts of real exchange rate undervaluation and domestic technological capabilities on growth are stable across development levels. On the one hand, a real exchange undervaluation measure is constructed based on the purchasing-power-parity theory...

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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?

Hattendorff, Christian - 2012

The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...

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The role of industrial sector in the Brazilian territorial reconfiguration : new expressions for XXI century national dilemmas

Monteiro Neto, Aristides; Silva, Raphael de Oliveira; … - 2022

In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...

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Behrens, Vanessa; Trunschke, Markus - 2020

their economic performance. By applying the new patent cartography developed by the EPO that identifies firm's 4.0 patents …

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Climate protection potentials of digitalized production processes : microeconometric evidence?

Axenbeck, Janna; Niebel, Thomas - 2021

Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the potential to reduce overall energy intensity within economic sectors. While previous empirical evidence is based on aggregated data, this is the first large-scale empirical study...

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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...

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