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This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of an ideal test (Hall, 2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they...
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We study different determinants of real-life R&D decisions within a net present value framework. Besides entry threat, Bertrand competition and multi-stage R&D with an abandonment option, our model includes demand uncertainty, modelled as a lottery. A lottery becomes more divergent when the...
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This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison et al. (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity...
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Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Bedeutung von Innovationen für die Beschäftigungsentwicklung und die Exporttätigkeit der deutschen Industrie seit Anfang der 2000er Jahre. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse der Innovationserhebungen der Europäischen Kommission (Community Innovation Surveys) wird gezeigt,...
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We study the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth with random samples of manufacturing and services from France, Germany, Spain and the UK for 1998–2000, totaling about 20,000 companies. We develop and estimate a model relating firms' and...
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Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Bedeutung von Innovationen für die Beschäftigungsentwicklung und die Exporttätigkeit der deutschen Industrie seit Anfang der 2000er Jahre. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse der Innovationserhebungen der Europäischen Kommission (Community Innovation Surveys) wird gezeigt,...
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We study different determinants of real-life R&D decisions within a net present value framework. Besides entry threat, Bertrand competition and multi-stage R&D with an abandonment option, our model includes demand uncertainty, modelled as a lottery. A lottery becomes more divergent when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298045