Title:International Schumpeterian Competition and Optimal R&D Subsidies
Author(s):IMPULLITI, GiammarioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for
innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of
cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...
Title:International Trade and Growth: The Impact of Selection and Imitation
Author(s):STÖLTING, SarahDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper develops an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms to analyze
the impact of intra-industry trade on productivity growth. Growth is generated by selection,
and sustained by entrants imitating successful ...
Title:Interpolation, Outliers and Inverse Autocorrelations
Author(s):PENA, Daniel; MARAVALL, AgustinDate:1991Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper addresses the problem of estimating missing observations in an infinite realization of a linear, possibly nonstationary, stochastic processes when the model is known. The general case of any possible distribution ...
Title:Intrahousehold Insurance and its Implications for Macroeconomic Outcomes
Author(s):SIASSI, NawidDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Most theoretical and empirical work on consumption, labor supply and saving decisions has been based on the paradigm that households behave as single agents. While this approach is often convenient, it relies on very ...
Title:Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination
Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications - those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and nonobviousness - should be accepted, while bad applications ...
Title:Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia: The long transition to a market economy
Author(s):UVALIC, MilicaDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In this book, Milica Uvalic examines the theoretical and empirical issues related to investment in Yugoslavia since 1965. She explores investment policies, sources of finance, macroeconomic performance, enterprise incentives ...
Title:Is Discrete Time a Good Representation of Continuous Time?
Author(s):LICANDRO, Omar; PUCH, Luis A.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Economists model time as continuous or discrete. The recent literature
on continuous time models with delays should help to bridge the gap
between these two families of models. In this note, we propose a simple
time–to–build ...
Title:Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?
Author(s):EHRBECK, Tilman; WALDMANN, RobertDate:1995Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO