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The impact of migration on elderly left behind in Moldova Franziska Gassmann, Melissa Siegel, Michaella Vanore & Jennifer Waidler full text | abstract | |
Industrialization, employment and poverty Alejandro Lavopa & Adam Szirmai full text | abstract | |
Determinants of the rural nonfarm economy in Tajikistan Aziz Atamanov & Marrit van den Berg full text | abstract | |
Optimal multi-phase transition paths toward a global green economy Adriaan van Zon & Paul A. David This working papers has been revised and republished as WP2013-009. full text | abstract | |
Entrepreneurship and innovation in a hybrid political order: The case of Lebanon Nora Stel & Wim Naudé full text | abstract | |
Migration and multi-dimensional poverty in Moldovan communities Melissa Siegel & Jennifer Waidler full text | abstract | |
European investment promotion agencies vis-à-vis multinational companies from emerging economies: Comparative analysis of BRIC investor targeting Sergey Filippov full text | abstract | |
Optimal multi-phase transition paths toward a stabilized global climate: Integrated dynamic requirements analysis for the 'tech fix' Paul A. David & Adriaan van Zon full text | abstract | |
Learning and convergence in networks Daniel Opolot & Théophile T. Azomahou full text | abstract | |
Community cohesion and inherited networks - A network study of two handloom clusters in Kerala, India Anant Kamath & Robin Cowan full text | abstract | |
Political determinants of sustainable transport in Latin American cities Carlos Cadena Gaitan full text | abstract | |
Learning and the structure of citation networks François Lafond full text | abstract | |
Paying informally for public health care in Albania: scarce resources or governance failure? Sonila Tomini & Wim Groot full text | abstract | |
The determinants of home based long-term care utilisation in Western European countries Sonila Tomini, Wim Groot & Milena Pavlova full text | abstract | |
Government R&D impact on the South African macro-economy Radhika Mia, David Mosaka, Lefentse Nokaneng & Rita Sikhondze full text | abstract | |
The dynamics of renewable energy transition in developing countries - The case of South Africa and India Radhika Mia full text | abstract | |
Switching the lights off: The impact of energy tariff increases on households in the Kyrgyz Republic Franziska Gassmann full text | abstract | |
Worker remittances and government behaviour in the receiving countries Thomas Ziesemer full text | abstract | |
Chronic and transitory poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic: What can synthetic panels tell us? Mira Bierbaum & Franziska Gassmann full text | abstract | |
Globalization and the changing institution for sustainability: The case of the Salmon farming industry in Chile Michiko Iizuka & Jorge Katz full text | abstract | |
Microeconometric evidence of financing frictions and innovative activity Amaresh Tiwari, Pierre Mohnen, Franz Palm & Sybrand Schim van der Loeff full text | abstract | |
Differential welfare state impacts for frontier working age families Irina Burlacu & Cathal O'Donoghue full text | abstract | |
Communication costs and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa Evans Mupela & Adam Szirmai full text | abstract | |
Determinants of the prevalence of diarrhoea in adolescents attending school: A case study of an Indian village school Shyama V. Ramani, Timothée Frühauf, Arijita Dutta & Huub Meijers full text | abstract | |
Do R&D tax incentives lead to higher wages for R&D workers? Evidence from the Netherlands Boris Lokshin & Pierre Mohnen This working paper is a revision of WP2008-034. full text | abstract | |
The impact of development aid on education and health: Survey and new evidence from dynamic models Thomas Ziesemer full text | abstract | |
Tax incentives or subsidies for R&D? Isabel Busom, Beatriz Corchuelo & Ester Martínez-Ros full text | abstract | |
The impact of Medium-Skilled immigration: A general equilibrium approach Joan Muysken, Ehsan Vallizadeh & Thomas Ziesemer full text | abstract | |
Envy and habits: Panel data estimates of interdependent preferences Jose Maria Casado, Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, José M. Labeaga Azcona & Dhanoos Sutthiphisal full text | abstract | |
Determinants of quadic patenting: Market access, imitative threat, competition and strength of intellectual property rights Can Huang & Jojo Jacob full text | abstract | |
A systemic perspective in understanding the successful emergence of non-traditional exports: two cases from Africa and Latin America Michiko Iizuka & Mulu Gebreeyesus full text | abstract | |
Process innovation objectives and management complementarities: patterns, drivers, co-adoption and performance effects José Luis Hervás Oliver, Francisca Sempere-Ripoll & Carles Boronat-Moll full text | abstract | |
Does the internet generate economic growth, international trade, or both? Huub Meijers full text | abstract | |
Technological capabilities and cost efficiency as antecedents of foreign market entry F. Cesaroni, Marco S. Giarratana & Ester Martínez-Ros full text | abstract | |
Income polarization and innovation: Evidence from African economies Théophile T. Azomahou & Mbaye Diene full text | abstract | |
Optimal health investment with separable and non-separable preferences Théophile T. Azomahou, Bity Diene, Mbaye Diene & Luc Soete full text | abstract | |
Nonlinearities in productivity growth: A semi-parametric panel analysis Théophile T. Azomahou, Bity Diene & Mbaye Diene full text | abstract | |
Perspectives on human development theory in democracy promotion: A comparison of democracy promotion programmes in Egypt through the lenses of classical and revised modernisation theory Inger Karin Moen Dyrnes full text | abstract | |
Prescriptions for network strategy: Does evidence of network effects in cross-section support them? Joel Baum, Robin Cowan & Nicolas Jonard full text | abstract | |
Employment and wages of people living with HIV/AIDS Pilar García-Gómez, José M. Labeaga Azcona & Juan Oliva full text | abstract | |
Lords of Uhuru: the political economy of elite competition and institutional change in post-independence Kenya Biniam Bedasso full text | abstract | |
The importance of manufacturing in economic development: Past, present and future perspectives Wim Naudé & Adam Szirmai full text | abstract | |
Explaining the dynamics of stagnation: An empirical examination of the North, Wallis and Weingast approach Richard Bluhm, Denis de Crombrugghe & Adam Szirmai full text | abstract | |
Industrial policy for growth Kristine Farla This paper is an update of the original paper published in 2012. full text | abstract | |
Institutions and credit Kristine Farla full text | abstract | |
Exploring the panel components of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) Luciana Cingolani & Denis de Crombrugghe full text | abstract | |
Stylized facts of governance, institutions and economic development. Exploring the institutional profiles database Bart Verspagen full text | abstract | |
Preliminary conclusions on institutions and economic performance Denis de Crombrugghe & Kristine Farla full text | abstract | |
Techniques for dealing with reverse causality between institutions and economic performance Luciana Cingolani & Denis de Crombrugghe full text | abstract | |
Institutions and long-run growth performance: An analytic literature review of the institutional determinants of economic growth Richard Bluhm & Adam Szirmai full text | abstract | |
Proximate, intermediate and ultimate causality: Theories and experiences of growth and development Adam Szirmai full text | abstract | |
Informal knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A network study of handloom clusters in Kerala, India Robin Cowan & Anant Kamath full text | abstract | |
Assessing contingent liabilities in public-private partnerships (PPPs) Emmanouil Sfakianakis & Mindel van de Laar full text | abstract | |
Sunk costs, extensive R&D subsidies and permanent inducement effects Pere Arqué-Castells & Pierre Mohnen full text | abstract | |
Whom to target - an obvious choice? Esther Schuering & Franziska Gassmann full text | abstract | |
Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy Wim Naudé full text | abstract | |
Remittances provide resilience against disasters in Africa Wim Naudé & Henri Bezuidenhout full text | abstract | |
Open innovation, contracts, and intellectual property rights: an exploratory empirical study John Hagedoorn & Ann-Kristin Ridder full text | abstract | |
Employment effect of innovation: microdata evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan Abdul Waheed full text | abstract | |
An exploration of agricultural grassroots innovation in South Africa and implications for innovation indicator development Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi & Maxwell Mudhara full text | abstract | |
Innovation strategies and employment in Latin American firms Gustavo A. Crespi & Pluvia Zuniga full text | abstract | |
Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization Zoltan J. Ács & Wim Naudé full text | abstract | |
International entrepreneurship and technological capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa Juliane Brach & Wim Naudé full text | abstract | |
Implementation of cross-country migration surveys in conflict-affected settings: Lessons from the IS Academy survey in Burundi and Ethiopia Sonja Fransen, Katherine Kuschminder & Melissa Siegel full text | abstract | |
New Technologies in remittances sending: Opportunities for mobile remittances in Africa Melissa Siegel & Sonja Fransen full text | abstract | |
Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan Melissa Siegel & Katherine Kuschminder full text | abstract | |
Gains from child-centred Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a Dutch pilot programme Robert Bauchmüller full text | abstract | |
New firm creation and failure: A matching approach Thomas Gries, Stefan Jungblut & Wim Naudé full text | abstract | |
Social interactions and complex networks Daniel Opolot full text | abstract | |
"Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken": Entrepreneurship and the happiness of nations Wim Naudé, José Ernesto Amorós & Oscar Cristi full text | abstract | |
The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion Robin Cowan, Nicolas Jonard & Rifka Weehuizen full text | abstract | |
Do Ak models really lack transitional dynamics? Yoseph Yilma Getachew full text | abstract | |
The monkey on your back?! Hierarchical positions and their influence on participants' behaviour within communities of learning Martin Rehm, W. Gijselaers & M. Segers full text | abstract | |
The informal ICT sector and innovation processes in Senegal Almamy Konté & Mariama Ndong full text | abstract | |
A simulation of social pensions in Europe Frieda Vandeninden full text | abstract | |
Foreign aid transaction costs Frieda Vandeninden full text | abstract | |
Cross-national trends in permanent earnings inequality and earnings instability in Europe 1994-2001 Denisa Maria Sologon & Cathal O'Donoghue full text | abstract | |
The impact of malnutrition and post traumatic stress disorder on the performance of working memory in children Elise de Neubourg & Chris de Neubourg full text | abstract | |
Estimates of the value of patent rights in China Can Huang full text | abstract | |
Evaluating binary alignment methods in microsimulation models Jinjing Li & Cathal O'Donoghue full text | abstract | |
A methodological survey of dynamic microsimulation models Jinjing Li & Cathal O'Donoghue full text | abstract | |
Maastricht reflections on innovation Luc Soete full text | abstract | |