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Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted-U relationship between product-market competition and innovation. This is … inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian Model, where greater competition reduces the profitability of innovation. We show that … the model can predict the inverted-U if the innovators' talent is heterogenous, and privately observable. With competition …
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We provide aggregate macroeconomic evidence on how, in the long-run, a diverse degree of complexity in production may affect not only the rate of economic growth, but also the correlation between the latter, population growth and the monopolistic (intermediate) markups. For a sample of OECD...
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This work provides a macroeconomic approach and a sound conceptual foundation for the notion of competitiveness gains, so prone to multiple interpretations, and to make it fit for empirical analyses. Instead of competitiveness is competitiveness gains the relevant concept, defined as a situation...
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This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and subsistence needs matter. It shows that if per capita income is sufficiently high, a windfall gain in productivity triggers behavior that leads to higher growth (the normal reaction). The same shock...
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This paper proposes a model that links households and firms, as usual, by markets for factors and goods and, additionally, by a banking sector that channels households' funds to firms and eliminates idiosyncratic risk. In equilibrium, agency costs and tax benefits of corporate debt are...
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An interview with Oded Galor on the development of unified growth theory. -- Unified Growth Theory ; Population …
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In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
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