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The role of innovation and entrepreneurship in economic growth

Andrews, Michael Jeffrey (ed.); Chatterji, Aaron (ed.); … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...

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Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds

Gordon, Robert J. - 2012

Even if innovation were to continue into the future at the rate of the two decades before 2007, the U.S. faces six …

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The Old and the New in U.S. Economic Expansion of the 1990s

Zarnowitz, Victor - 2000

Some analysts see the expansion of the 1990s as uniquely long and strong. Moreover, according to one popular view, the noninflationary boom can continue indefinitely. To shed some light on this debate, this paper compares the 1990s systematically with two previous long economic expansions, using...

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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth

Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999

Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic financial structure predated by three decades the canals, railroads, and...

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The Great Transition : Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Marto, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs...

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Labor Market Dynamics When Ideas are Harder to Find

Bilal, Adrien; Engbom, Niklas; Mongey, Simon; Violante, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper evaluates the impact of slowing economic growth on labor market dynamism and misallocation. It provides a model of endogenous growth via imitation in a frictional labor market. The framework accounts for rich data on worker job-to-job transitions as well as stochastic and lifecycle...

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Real Exchange Rates and Productivity Growth in the United States and Japan

Marston, Richard C. - 1986

Real exchange rates between the yen and dollar based on general price indexes overestimate the competitiveness of the United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a continuous fall in the prices of traded goods relative to...

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The International Economics of Transitional Growth : The Case of the United States

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1981

This paper develops a general equilibrium two country, two commodity dynamic simulation model of international trade in commodities and financial claims. The model generalizes the Heckscher-Ohlin static theory of trade by incorporating costs of quickly adjusting levels of capital stocks in...

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An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States

Chernichovsky, Dov - 1979

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which family income and education are obstacles to the provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reveals the following: 1. Average nutrient intakes...

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