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Quality Improvements in Models of Growth
Barro, Robert J.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Technological progress takes the form of improvements in the quality of an array of intermediate inputs to production. In an equilibrium that is standard in the literature, all research is carried out by outsiders, and success means that the outsider replaces the incumbent as the industry...
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Technology in Growth
Keely, Louise; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We review the role of R&D in endogenous growth theory, and describe extant empirical research – macro and micro – bearing on R&D as an engine of growth. Taking R&D to be key, while recognizing the significance of economic incentives, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more...
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On the Historical Continuity of the Process of Economic Growth
de Klundert, Theo C N J van; van Schaik, Anton - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
1945. Catching up is no longer relevant in the 1970s and the 1980s, despite a continuing gap in productivity levels vis á …
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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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Endogenous Growth, Human Capital, and Industry Wages
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
, alternative hypotheses such as self-selection or varying individual human capital productivity in different sectors are examined. …
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Business Cycles and Long-run Growth
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
perspective. It emphasizes the ‘opportunity cost’ approach, which states that firms will intertemporally substitute productivity …
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Persistent Differences in National Productivity Growth Rates with a Common Technology and Free Capital Mobility
Buiter, Willem H.; Kletzer, Kenneth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations, even though these countries show a common technology, constant … generations specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital … than leisure). We consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation …
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