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2012-058: Do R&D tax incentives lead to higher wages for R&D workers? Evidence from the Netherlands

Boris Lokshin and Pierre Mohnen

2012-057: The impact of development aid on education and health: Survey and new evidence from dynamic models

Thomas Ziesemer

2012-056: Tax incentives or subsidies for R&D?

Isabel Busom, Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez-Azúa and Ester Martinez Ros

2012-055: The impact of Medium-Skilled immigration: A general equilibrium approach

Joan Muysken, Ehsan Vallizadeh and Thomas Ziesemer

2012-054: Envy and habits: Panel data estimates of interdependent preferences

Jose Maria Casado, Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Jose Labeaga and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

2012-053: Determinants of quadic patenting: Market access, imitative threat, competition and strength of intellectual property rights

Can Huang and Jojo Jacob

2012-052: A systemic perspective in understanding the successful emergence of non-traditional exports: two cases from Africa and Latin America

Michiko Iizuka and Mulu Gebreeyesus

2012-051: Process innovation objectives and management complementarities: patterns, drivers, co-adoption and performance effects

Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Francisca Sempere-Ripoll and Carles Boronat-Moll

2012-050: Does the internet generate economic growth, international trade, or both?

Huub Meijers

2012-049: Technological capabilities and cost efficiency as antecedents of foreign market entry

Fabrizio Cesaroni, Marco S. Giarratana and Ester Martínez-Ros

2012-048: Income polarization and innovation: Evidence from African economies

Theophile Azomahou and Mbaye Diene

2012-047: Optimal health investment with separable and non-separable preferences

Theophile Azomahou, Luc Soete, Bity Diene and Mbaye Diene

2012-046: Nonlinearities in productivity growth: A semi-parametric panel analysis

Theophile Azomahou, Bity Diene and Mbaye Diene

2012-045: 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 Dyrnes

2012-044: Prescriptions for network strategy: Does evidence of network effects in cross-section support them?

Joel A.C. Baum, Robin Cowan and Nicolas Jonard

2012-043: Employment and wages of people living with HIV/AIDS

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Jose Labeaga and Juan Oliva

2012-042: Lords of Uhuru: the political economy of elite competition and institutional change in post-independence Kenya

Biniam Bedasso

2012-041: The importance of manufacturing in economic development: Past, present and future perspectives

Wim Naudé and Adam Szirmai

2012-040: Explaining the dynamics of stagnation: An empirical examination of the North, Wallis and Weingast approach

Richard Bluhm, Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai

2012-039: Industrial policy for growth

Kristine Farla

2012-038: Institutions and credit

Kristine Farla

2012-037: Exploring the panel components of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD)

Luciana Cingolani and Denis de Crombrugghe

2012-036: Stylized facts of governance, institutions and economic development. Exploring the institutional profiles database

Bart Verspagen

2012-035: Preliminary conclusions on institutions and economic performance

Denis de Crombrugghe and Kristine Farla

2012-034: Techniques for dealing with reverse causality between institutions and economic performance

Luciana Cingolani and Denis de Crombrugghe

2012-033: Institutions and long-run growth performance: An analytic literature review of the institutional determinants of economic growth

Richard Bluhm and Adam Szirmai

2012-032: Proximate, intermediate and ultimate causality: Theories and experiences of growth and development

Adam Szirmai

2012-031: Informal knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A network study of handloom clusters in Kerala, India

Robin Cowan and Anant Kamath

2012-030: Assessing contingent liabilities in public‐private partnerships (PPPs)

Emmanouil Sfakianakis and Mindel van de Laar

2012-029: Sunk costs, extensive R&D subsidies and permanent inducement effects

Pere Arqué-Castells and Pierre Mohnen

2012-028: Whom to target: an obvious choice?

Esther Schüring and Franziska Gassmann

2012-027: Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy

Wim Naudé

2012-026: Remittances provide resilience against disasters in Africa

Wim Naudé and Henri Bezuidenhout

2012-025: Open innovation, contracts, and intellectual property rights: an exploratory empirical study

John Hagedoorn and Ann-Kristin Ridder

2012-024: Employment effect of innovation: microdata evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Abdul Waheed

2012-023: An exploration of agricultural grassroots innovation in South Africa and implications for innovation indicator development

Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi and Maxwell Mudhara

2012-022: Innovation strategies and employment in Latin American firms

Gustavo Crespi and Pluvia Zuniga

2012-021: Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Zoltan Acs and Wim Naudé

2012-020: International entrepreneurship and technological capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa

Juliane Brach and Wim Naudé

2012-019: Implementation of cross-country migration surveys in conflict-affected settings: Lessons from the IS Academy survey in Burundi and Ethiopia

Sonja Fransen, Katie Kuschminder and Melissa Siegel

2012-018: New Technologies in remittances sending: Opportunities for mobile remittances in Africa

Melissa Siegel and Sonja Fransen

2012-017: Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan

Katie Kuschminder and Melissa Siegel

2012-016: Gains from child-centred Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a Dutch pilot programme

Robert Bauchmüller

2012-015: New firm creation and failure: A matching approach

Thomas Gries, Stefan Jungblut and Wim Naudé

2012-014: Social interactions and complex networks

Daniel Opolot

2012-013: "Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken": Entrepreneurship and the happiness of nations

Wim Naudé, José Amorós and Oscar Cristi

2012-012: The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion

Robin Cowan, Nicolas Jonard and Rifka Weehuizen

2012-011: Do Ak models really lack transitional dynamics?

Yoseph Getachew

2012-010: The monkey on your back?! - Hierarchical positions and their influence on participants' behaviour within communities of learning

Martin Rehm, Wim Gijselaers and Mien Segers

2012-009: The informal ICT sector and innovation processes in Senegal

Almamy Konté and Mariama Ndong