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Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy?
Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Chor, Davin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the role of evidence-based information in shaping individuals' preferences for trade policies through a series of survey experiments that contain randomized information treatments. Each treatment provides a concise statement of economics research findings on how openness to trade...
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The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity : Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis
Alfaro, Laura - 2018
-constraints and the profitability of engaging in innovation (R&D). We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453086
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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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