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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Technology spillovers"”.
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Institutional Ownership and Technology Spillovers
… role of both foreign institutional investors and technology spillovers in the global economy. In Chapter 2, we show that foreign institutional ownership (FIO) positively influences risk-taking, and this positive relation is achieved through direct and indirect channels. FIO is found to be a …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… assets. The first essay examines the impact of technology spillovers on corporate financing decisions for innovative firms. I find that greater technology spillovers lead to higher leverage in innovative firms. Furthermore, in firms with greater technology spillovers, equity is more costly …
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Economic Benefits of Research Cooperation: The Case of the Regional Maize Program for Central America and the Caribbean
… which research institutions will survive. Technology spillovers are a key factor to the measurement of research efficiency because globalization of agricultural research has increased their prevalence. An untested hypothesis is that spillovers reduce the efficiency of National Agricultural …
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Technology diffusion and productivity : evidence from the South African manufacturing sector
… literature on trade-related international technology diffusion. It examines whether South Africa can enhance its productivity by importing machinery and equipment that embodies foreign knowledge from trading partners that do significant amounts of research and development. The focus is on …
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Perceptions of local firms to invest in special economic zones in Zambia: the case of Lusaka South Multi-facility economic zone.
… benefits realised from these zones range from technology spillovers, employment and attraction of foreign direct investment among others. In Zambia, the zones have been designed to encourage local and foreign investment including small and medium enterprises. However, the rate of uptake of land …
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Perceptions of local firms to invest in special economic zones in Zambia: the case of Lusaka South Multi-facility economic zone.
… benefits realised from these zones range from technology spillovers, employment and attraction of foreign direct investment among others. In Zambia, the zones have been designed to encourage local and foreign investment including small and medium enterprises. However, the rate of uptake of land …
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Innovation and Growth: Theoretical Models and Analytical Simulations of Spatial, Clustering and Competition Effects
… areas. Firstly, innovation is based on knowledge spillovers. But knowledge spillovers are also subject to spatial characteristics in its transfer between firms, locations, regions and nations. Similarly, knowledge is used by innovators in many sectors, not just the sector where the knowledge was …
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Essays on Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries
… chapter studies the effects of employee-driven technology spillovers on technology adoption. It challenges the theoretical result of Franco and Filson (2006) by assuming that workers are risk averse and that the number of competitors is finite. In this more realistic scenario spillovers …
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Three Essays on Economic Growth and Technology Development: Considering the Spillover Effects
… on the empirical analysis of economic growth and technology development. In particular, I consider spillover effects in different frameworks. The first chapter outlines the three topics involved and briefly discusses the motivations, methods as well as some conclusions in each of the following …
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Three papers in regional economics: energy productivity convergence, water resource planning, and workforce occupation-industry dynamics
… examine three key engines of economic growth -- technology, natural resource and human capital, by taking spatial heterogeneities and relationships into consideration. The first paper empirically tests the trade-facilitated technology spillovers in the convergence of energy productivities at the …