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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth

Falkinger, Josef; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in a North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper develops a model for analysing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...

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Information Sharing and Cumulative Innovation in Business Networks

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

How can we explain the success of cooperative networks of firms that share innovations, such as Silicon Valley or the Open Source community? This Paper shows that if innovations are cumulative, making an invention publicly available to a network of firms may be valuable if the firm expects to...

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Schumpeterian Entrepreneurs Meet Engel's Law: The Impact of Inequality on Innovation-Driven Growth

Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

technical and a pecuniary externality resulting from the innovation process may generate multiple equilibria. Redistribution may …

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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...

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Profit Taxation, Innovation and the Financing of Heterogeneous Firms

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

endogenous share opts for innovation and faces credit constraints in the subsequent expansion phase. We emphasize four results …: (i) R&D subsidies not only encourage innovation but also relax finance constraints and help innovative firms to exploit … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …

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Offshoring and Product Innovation

Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in …

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Distribution & Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

or in the knowledge sector, which designs new varieties. It is shown that if the elasticity of labor supply to the … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with …

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Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth

O'Donoghue, Edward; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is two-fold. First, we show how the patent policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role of patents has been largely ignored. Second, we...

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