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Growth and the geography of knowledge
Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018
We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810111
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Adopt or innovate : understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade
Calel, Raphael - 2018
Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788868
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397182
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Growth effects of non proprietary innovation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409970
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The role of human capital in structural change and growth in an open economy : innovative and absorptive capacity effects
Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran - 2021
Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421142
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Innovation and trade with heterogeneous firms
Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - 2009
This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887426
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Fueling growth when oil peaks : directed technological change and the limits to efficiency
Jarque Andrés, Francisco; Smulders, Sjak - 2012
; innovation ; directed technical change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659333
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Property rights, optimal public enforcement, and growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2011 - Revised vers.: November 27, 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387238
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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model
García-Peñalosa, Cecilia (contributor);  … - 2004
We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002520985
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Incentives for environmental R&D
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011
Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130253