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2015-014: Inside the Black Box: Contributions to the discussion on official development assistance

Freeman I., Kool T., Low C., Salsal S. and Toczydlowska E.

2015-013: Human capital, innovation and the distribution of firm growth rates

Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwaegen

2015-012: Innovation and productivity in services and manufacturing: The role of ICT investment

Aboal D. and Ezequiel Tacsir

2015-011: Evolutionary convergence of the patterns of international research collaborations across scientific fields

Wang L. and Mario Coccia

2015-010: North-South FDI and Bilateral Investment Treaties

Rodney Falvey and Neil Foster-McGregor

2015-009: The location strategies of multinationals from emerging countries in the EU regions

Riccardo Crescenzi, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti

2015-008: The effects of remittances on support for democracy in Africa: Are remittances a curse or a blessing?

Maty Konte

2015-007: Research joint ventures in an R&D driven market with evolving consumer preferences: An evolutionary multi-agent based modelling approach

Cevikarslan S.

2015-006: Poverty persistence and informal risk management: Micro evidence from urban Ethiopia

Azomahou T.T. and Eleni Yitbarek

2015-005: Risk preference or financial literacy? Behavioural experiment on index insurance demand

Awel Y. and Azomahou T.T.

2015-004: Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect: Implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Ehsan Vallizadeh, Muysken J. and Thomas Ziesemer

2015-003: Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of declines: A political economy theory of delayed recovery

Richard Bluhm and Kaj Thomsson

2015-002: The effect of supplementation with locally available foods on stunting: A review of theory and evidence

Nseluke Hambayi M., Groot W.N.J. and Nyasha Tirivayi

2015-001: How does firms' perceived competition affect technological innovation in Luxembourg?

Wladimir Raymond and Tatiana Plotnikova

2014-092: Innovation dynamics and productivity: evidence for Latin America

Gustavo Crespi, Ezequiel Tacsir and Fernando Vargas

2014-091: Diverse we stand: Horizontal inequality and ethno-communal conflict in Indonesia

Bart Kleine Deters and Nimeh Z.

2014-090: Lab-oriented radical innovations as drivers of paradigm shifts in science

Mario Coccia

2014-089: Technology & environment: some possible damaging effects of technological change in advanced and opulent societies

Mario Coccia

2014-088: Temperate climate - Innovative outputs nexus

Mario Coccia

2014-087: Leadership-driven innovation & evolution of societies

Mario Coccia

2014-086: The geographic dimensions of institutions

Samyukta Bhupatiraju

2014-085: Multi-level determinants of inward FDI ownership

Samyukta Bhupatiraju

2014-084: Has the internet fostered inclusive innovation in the developing world?

Caroline Paunov and Valentina Rollo

2014-083: How can political trust be built after civil wars?: lessons from post-conflict Sierra Leone

Pui Hang Wong

2014-082: The Republic of Open Science: the institution’s historical origins and prospects for continued vitality

Paul David

2014-081: Tax incentives and firm size: effects on private R&D investment in Spain

Jose Labeaga, Ester Martínez-Ros and Pierre Mohnen

2014-080: International R&D spillovers and business service innovation

Neil Foster-McGregor, Johannes Pöschl and Robert Stehrer

2014-079: Obesity of women in Jordan - Prevalence and associated factors: making a case for a comprehensive obesity policy

Göllner S. and Nimeh Z.

2014-078: Can internet infrastructure help reduce regional disparities?: evidence from Turkey

Mehmet Celbis and Crombrugghe D.P.I. de

2014-077: Democratizing intellectual property systems: how corruption hinders equal opportunities for firms

Caroline Paunov

2014-076: Structural modernization and development traps: an empirical approach

Alejandro Lavopa and Adam Szirmai

2014-075: Do remittances not promote growth?: a bias-adjusted three-step mixture-of-regressions

Maty Konte

2014-074: Means to improve access to justice and legally empower victims of domestic violence: An empirical legal study on legislation and legal offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina

J. Marotta

2014-073: The role of industry and economic context in open innovation: Evidence from Nigeria

Abiodun Egbetokun, Oluwatope O., Adeyeye D. and Maruf Sanni

2014-072: Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on expenditure patterns of recipient households?: The Moldovan case

J. Waidler, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Franziska Gassmann and Melissa Siegel

2014-071: The deposit financing gap: Another Dutch disease

Huub Meijers, J. Muysken and Olaf Sleijpen

2014-070: Analysing global value chains using input-output economics: Proceed with care

Ö. Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2014-069: Innovation and productivity in services: Empirical evidence from Latin America

Gustavo Crespi, Ezequiel Tacsir and Fernando Vargas

2014-068: An individual-centered approach to multidimensional poverty: The cases of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Andrea Franco-Correa

2014-067: Widowhood and barriers to seeking health care in Uganda

Nyasha Tirivayi

2014-066: Size and economies of scale in higher education and the implications for mergers

Nyasha Tirivayi, H. Maasen van den Brink and W.N.J. Groot

2014-065: The impact of food transfers for people living with HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Zambia

Nyasha Tirivayi and W.N.J. Groot

2014-064: Giving in South Africa: Determining the influence of altruism, inequality aversion and social capital

Nyasha Tirivayi

2014-063: The effect of unconditional cash transfers on adult labour supply: A unitary discrete choice model for the case of Ecuador

Andrés Mideros and Cathal O'Donoghue

2014-062: The viability of sustained growth by India's MNEs: India's dual economy and constraints from location assets

Rajneesh Narula

2014-061: Asset recombination in international partnerships as a source of improved innovation capabilities in China

Collinson S. and Rajneesh Narula

2014-060: The size of patent categories: USPTO 1976-2006

François Lafond

2014-059: Appropriability mechanisms, innovation and productivity: Evidence from the UK

Bronwyn Hall and Vania Sena

2014-058: International R&D alliances by firms: Origins and development

Rajneesh Narula and A. Martinez-Noya

2014-057: Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Fresh evidence from African countries

Augustin Fosu, Yoseph Getachew and Thomas Ziesemer