1. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

    This article examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6634…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Intellectual Property Box Regimes: Effective Tax Rates and Tax Policy Considerations

    In 2014, 12 European countries are operating Intellectual Property (IP) Box regimes that provide substantially reduced rates of corporate tax for income derived from important forms of intellectual property. We…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Trade and Technology: New Evidence on the Productivity Sorting of Firms

    Recent advances in trade theory suggest novel gains from trade liberalisation through technology adoption by expanding exporting firms. These theories rely on strict assumptions regarding the productivity…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2015

    On the Provision of Public Goods with Probabilistic and Ambiguous Thresholds

    Many natural systems involve thresholds that, once triggered, imply irreversible damages for the users. Although the existence of such thresholds is undisputed, their location is highly uncertain. We explore…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Revisiting the Link Between Growth and Federalism: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach

    Following the ambiguous results in the literature aimed at understanding the empirical link between fiscal federalism and economic growth, this paper revisits the question using a Bayesian Model Averaging…