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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010

We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Incentives and Creativity in Groups

Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...

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Corporate Taxation and the Quality of Research and Development

Ernst, Christof; Richter, Katharina; Riedel, Nadine - CESifo - 2013

attracting innovative projects with a high earnings potential and innovation level. The effect is statistically significant and …

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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...

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Dynamics of Open Source Movements

Athey, Susan; Ellison, Glenn - CESifo - 2010

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...

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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - CESifo - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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