Leniency programs as a tool for cartel detection and cartel destabilization, have been implemented since the early nineties. Theoretical work has shown that leniency programs can be effective in enhancing cartel detection and deterrence, but these effects are not straightforward. It is even possible that there is an increase in the total number of cartels. Empirical evidence shows that the posi...

This research examines whether technology transfer, research intensity, educational attainment and the ability to absorb foreign technology help explain cross-country differences in productivity growth. Our data comprise a panel of 55 countries including 23 OECD and 32 developing economies over the period 1970-2004. The results show that TFP growth in both OECD and developing countries is posit...

Th e paper examines the host country-specifi c factors as determinants of hotel chains' market presence in a destination. Th ree types of hotel chains' market presence are identifi ed – absolute market presence (number of chain affi liated hotels/rooms), relative market presence (share of affi liated hotels/rooms in the total number of hotels/rooms in a destination) and market presence intensit...

Using a new dataset on imports of technology and total factor productivity (TFP) over more than a century for the OECD countries, this paper tests for international technological transmission through trade. The empirical estimates suggest that imports of knowledge have been responsible for an almost 200% increase in TFP over the past century, but that the spillover effect has been highly uneven...

This paper provides new evidence on the importance of international technology spillovers channelled by imports and its impact on economic TFP growth of the OECD countries. For this purpose we estimate a version of the growth model with endogenous technological change used in Benhabib and Spiegel (1994), which includes some modifications in order to capture the differences in the degree of succ...

This study's primary purpose is to analyze empirical information on the nature, magnitude and motivation for international production sharing in East Asia. To accomplish this objective it utilizes a, heretofore, largely untapped data source on inter-and intra-regional trade in parts and components. The following are some of the main points emerging from these data; • East Asian trade in compone...

here has been a tremendous growth in student mobility in higher education in the last two decades as universities in the West respond to globalisation, economic growth and capacity building strategies of Asian countries. According to the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) 2013 report “Education at a Glance”1, the total number of foreign students enrolled in tertiary e...

We have measured crystalline electric field (CEF) excitations of ${\mathrm{Nd}}^{3+}$ ions in the two-channel Kondo lattice candidates $\mathrm{Nd}{\mathit{T}}_{2}{\mathrm{Zn}}_{20}$ $(T = \mathrm{Co}, \mathrm{Rh}, \text{and} \mathrm{Ir})$ by means inelastic neutron scattering (INS). In INS measurements at 5 K, dispersionless were observed 3.8 and 7.2 meV for $T=\mathrm{Co}$, 3.1 5.8 $T=\mathrm...