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Lifetime inequality and redistribution
Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2012
In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial...
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Chapter 8. Student Loans and Repayment : Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Lochner, L.; Monge-Naranjo, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : Volume 5, (pp. 397-478). 2016
Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the USA, student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent...
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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue
Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287358
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A Schumpeterian model of investment and innovation with labor market regulation
Calcagnini, Giorgio; Giombini, Germana; Travaglini, Giuseppe - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 27 (2018) 7/8, pp. 628-651
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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters
Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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Internationalizing firm innovations : the influence of multimarket overlap in knowledge activities
Berry, Heather - In: Journal of international business studies : JIBS ; an … 51 (2020) 6, pp. 963-985
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Chapter 61. Knowledge Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation
AUDRETSCH, DAVID B.; FELDMAN, MARYANN P. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2713-2739). 2004
This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics … of innovation and technological change. This tradition focused on the innovation production function however it was … aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and geography. However, empirical results hinted that knowledge production …
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Outsourcing in product cycles
Chu, Hsiao-Lei - In: Review of development economics 19 (2015) 4, pp. 941-956
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A dynamic North-South model of demand-induced product cycles
Foellmi, Reto; Hanslin, Sandra; Kohler, Andreas - 2015
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Patent protection, innovation, and technology transfer in a Schumpeterian economy
Zheng, Zhijie; Huang, Chienyu; Yang, Yibai - In: European economic review : EER 129 (2020), pp. 1-23
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