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Measurement Of Labor Quality Growth Caused
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, the authors develop a methodology for...
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The Impact Of ICT Usage, Workplace Organisation And Human Capital On The Provision Of Apprenticeship Training : A Firm-level Analysis Based On Swiss Panel Data
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Firstly, the authors investigated the determinants of the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of...
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Disaggregated Trade Flows And The "Missing Globalization Puzzle"
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the stability of the distance coefficient values over time in the generalized gravity equation of Bergstrand (1989) using both aggregate and disaggregated trade flows among 22...
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Business Cycle Measurement With Semantic Filtering: A Micro Data Approach
November 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors develop a business cycle measure that can be shown to have excellent ex-ante forecasting properties for GDP growth. For identifying business cycle movements, they use a...
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Assessing The Impact Of The ECB's Monetary Policy On The Stock Markets: A Sectoral View
December 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes the response of the European stock markets to the monetary policy shocks by the European Central Bank using the heteroskedasticity based approach of Rigobon (2003). The authors...
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Agency And Communication In IMF Conditional Lending: Theory And Empirical Evidence
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. The model predicts that when agency...
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A Panel Granger-causality Test Of Endogenous Vs. Exogenous Growth
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper proposes a new test of endogenous vs. exogenous growth theories based on the Granger-causality methodology and applies it to a panel of 20 OECD countries. The test yields divergent...
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A Comparison Of Firm-level Innovation Cooperation In Five European Countries
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and...
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How Do Different Motives For R&D Cooperation Affect Firm Performance? - An Analysis Based On Swiss Micro Data
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Starting point of the analysis is the empirical fact that firms pursue different goals when getting engaged in R&D collaborations, often more than one goal at the same time. Given that firms are...
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Employee Education, Information And Communication Technology, Workplace Organization And Trade: A Comparative Analysis Of Greek And Swiss Enterprises
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at investigating empirically at the firm level the effect of the use of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and also of two other factors, the adoption of new...
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Evaluating German Business Cycle Forecasts Under An Asymmetric Loss Function
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Based on annual data for growth and inflation forecasts for Germany covering the time span from 1970 to 2007 and up to 17 different forecasts per year, the authors test for a possible asymmetry of...
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Globalization And Protection Of Employment
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests this hypothesis in a panel of 28 OECD countries from 1985 to 2003,...
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Tax Competition And Income Sorting: Evidence From The Zurich Metropolitan Area
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually...
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Do Competitively Acquired Funds Induce Public Research Institutions To Behave Efficiently?
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the effect of public and private third-party funds on the efficiency of departments of Swiss public research institutions. Estimating an output distance function assuming that...
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Discretionary Fiscal Policy: The Case Of Switzerland
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Towards the end of 2009, the world economy was recovering from its deepest recession since the end of World War II. Most countries around the world took resort to fiscal policy in order to foster...
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Factors Determining The Adoption Of Energy-saving Technologies In Swiss Firms ? An Analysis Based On Micro Data
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the factors that determine the inter-firm and intra-firm adoption rates of energy-saving technologies. These factors can be on theoretical terms firm-specific rank effects,...
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How Do Different Motives For R&D Investment In Foreign Locations Affect Domestic Firm Performance? An Analysis Based On Swiss Panel Micro Data
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to investigate the differences between specific motives of R&D investment in foreign locations with respect to the factors influencing the likelihood of foreign R&D and to...
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Does Membership On The UN Security Council Influence IMF Conditionality?
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of...
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Testing The Growth Effects Of Structural Change
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Against the backdrop of Baumol's model of 'Unbalanced growth', a recent strand of literature has presented models that manage to reconcile structural change with Kaldor's 'Stylized fact' of the...
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Insights Into The Determinants Of Innovation Of Energy Efficiency
September 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Given the increasing interest in understanding (and supporting by means of public policy) innovative activity related to Energy Efficient Technology (EET), the author attempts to identify...
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From Rags To Riches: How Robust Is The Influence Of Culture On Entrepreneurial Activity?
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Entrepreneurial activity differs substantially across countries. While cultural differences have often been proposed as an explanation, measuring a country's cultural characteristics suffers from...
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The Global Production Frontier Of Universities
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper provides first micro-level evidence of the global university production frontier, allowing to estimate technical efficiencies of 273 top research universities across 29 countries...
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Competition And R&D Cooperation With Universities And Competitors
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes the relationship between competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors. The simple model predicts that more competitors reduce the incentives for horizontal...
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External End Users And Firm Innovation Performance
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Research about users as a source of innovation has been largely restricted to case studies exploring specific innovation projects at the firm level. This paper assesses empirically the...
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External End Users And Firm Innovation Performance
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Research about users as a source of innovation has been largely restricted to case studies exploring specific innovation projects at the firm level. This paper assesses empirically the...
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Competition And R&D Cooperation With Universities And Competitors
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes the relationship between competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors. The simple model predicts that more competitors reduce the incentives for horizontal...
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White Papers
The Global Production Frontier Of Universities
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper provides first micro-level evidence of the global university production frontier, allowing to estimate technical efficiencies of 273 top research universities across 29 countries...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
From Rags To Riches: How Robust Is The Influence Of Culture On Entrepreneurial Activity?
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Entrepreneurial activity differs substantially across countries. While cultural differences have often been proposed as an explanation, measuring a country's cultural characteristics suffers from...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Insights Into The Determinants Of Innovation Of Energy Efficiency
September 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Given the increasing interest in understanding (and supporting by means of public policy) innovative activity related to Energy Efficient Technology (EET), the author attempts to identify...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Testing The Growth Effects Of Structural Change
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Against the backdrop of Baumol's model of 'Unbalanced growth', a recent strand of literature has presented models that manage to reconcile structural change with Kaldor's 'Stylized fact' of the...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Does Membership On The UN Security Council Influence IMF Conditionality?
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
How Do Different Motives For R&D Investment In Foreign Locations Affect Domestic Firm Performance? An Analysis Based On Swiss Panel Micro Data
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to investigate the differences between specific motives of R&D investment in foreign locations with respect to the factors influencing the likelihood of foreign R&D and to...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Factors Determining The Adoption Of Energy-saving Technologies In Swiss Firms ? An Analysis Based On Micro Data
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the factors that determine the inter-firm and intra-firm adoption rates of energy-saving technologies. These factors can be on theoretical terms firm-specific rank effects,...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Discretionary Fiscal Policy: The Case Of Switzerland
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Towards the end of 2009, the world economy was recovering from its deepest recession since the end of World War II. Most countries around the world took resort to fiscal policy in order to foster...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Do Competitively Acquired Funds Induce Public Research Institutions To Behave Efficiently?
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the effect of public and private third-party funds on the efficiency of departments of Swiss public research institutions. Estimating an output distance function assuming that...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Tax Competition And Income Sorting: Evidence From The Zurich Metropolitan Area
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Globalization And Protection Of Employment
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests this hypothesis in a panel of 28 OECD countries from 1985 to 2003,...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Evaluating German Business Cycle Forecasts Under An Asymmetric Loss Function
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Based on annual data for growth and inflation forecasts for Germany covering the time span from 1970 to 2007 and up to 17 different forecasts per year, the authors test for a possible asymmetry of...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Employee Education, Information And Communication Technology, Workplace Organization And Trade: A Comparative Analysis Of Greek And Swiss Enterprises
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at investigating empirically at the firm level the effect of the use of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and also of two other factors, the adoption of new...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
How Do Different Motives For R&D Cooperation Affect Firm Performance? - An Analysis Based On Swiss Micro Data
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Starting point of the analysis is the empirical fact that firms pursue different goals when getting engaged in R&D collaborations, often more than one goal at the same time. Given that firms are...
Provided by KOF
-
White Papers
A Comparison Of Firm-level Innovation Cooperation In Five European Countries
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
A Panel Granger-causality Test Of Endogenous Vs. Exogenous Growth
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper proposes a new test of endogenous vs. exogenous growth theories based on the Granger-causality methodology and applies it to a panel of 20 OECD countries. The test yields divergent...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Agency And Communication In IMF Conditional Lending: Theory And Empirical Evidence
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. The model predicts that when agency...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Assessing The Impact Of The ECB's Monetary Policy On The Stock Markets: A Sectoral View
December 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes the response of the European stock markets to the monetary policy shocks by the European Central Bank using the heteroskedasticity based approach of Rigobon (2003). The authors...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Business Cycle Measurement With Semantic Filtering: A Micro Data Approach
November 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors develop a business cycle measure that can be shown to have excellent ex-ante forecasting properties for GDP growth. For identifying business cycle movements, they use a...
Provided by KOF
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White Papers
Disaggregated Trade Flows And The "Missing Globalization Puzzle"
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the stability of the distance coefficient values over time in the generalized gravity equation of Bergstrand (1989) using both aggregate and disaggregated trade flows among 22...
Provided by KOF
-
White Papers
The Impact Of ICT Usage, Workplace Organisation And Human Capital On The Provision Of Apprenticeship Training : A Firm-level Analysis Based On Swiss Panel Data
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Firstly, the authors investigated the determinants of the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of...
Provided by KOF
-
White Papers
Measurement Of Labor Quality Growth Caused
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, the authors develop a methodology for...
Provided by KOF
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