In this thesis, cross-sectoral networks among government, industry and citizen sectors in two Japanese local sustainable development projects introduced bioenergy will be analyzed and discussed. The research and analysis focus on the contributions by local cross-sectoral networks in the projects. As a result of case studies, the local cross-sectoral networks showed their strengths in interpreta...

PURPOSE To determine the effects of age on global and sectoral peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), macular thicknesses, and optic nerve head (ONH) parameters in healthy subjects using optical coherence tomography (OCT). DESIGN Retrospective, cross-sectional observational study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 226 eyes from 124 healthy subjects were included. METHODS Healthy subjects w...

State incentive granting for the purpose of firm retention or recruitment remains highly controversial and is often portrayed as antithetical to long-range economic development planning. This paper uses quasi-experimental methods to measure the impact of state-level economic development incentives on employment growth at the establishment level in North Carolina. Using North Carolina’s rich his...

Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement When similar patterns of expansion and contraction are observed across sectors, we call this a business cycle. Yet explaining the similarity and synchronization of these cycles across industries remains a puzzle. Whereas output growth across industries is highly correlated, identifiable shocks, like shoc...

It has been shown that over a 20 year period of time the OECD countries have converged in terms of their aggregate technological effort, but this trend covers diverging patterns of sectoral innovative activities even for the countries at the forefront of the " convergence club " (Archibugi and Pianta 1994). This evidence supports the relevance of the National Systems of Innovation (NSI) perspec...

This paper studies how the Trans-Pacific region affects the US economy in terms of business cycle transmission. We use a large dataset consisting of disaggregated sectoral industrial production indexes from selected countries in the region and employ a factoraugmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) approach to analyze the transmission of shocks in different industries. We find that a positive ou...

In this paper we assess how important “industry” is to innovation. Our empirical estimates suggest that “industry factors” are, at most, only moderately important for R&D, innovation and innovative performance at the firm level. The results offer empirical support to recent evolutionary theorizing stressing that firms have heterogeneous innovative capabilities and hence differ in terms of perfo...