international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … for the 1990s. This paper documents the extent of this economic dilemma confronting Germany as well as the rest of Western …

In this article, we review the literature on the measurement of trade costs in international trade with a special …

mysterious doubling in the ratio of output to capital input when the postwar era is compared with 1870-1929. Measurement … the measurement of capital. A new MFP series taking account of all these adjustments grows more slowly throughout, and the …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

This paper quantifies the relationship between market size and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. We estimate … the elasticity of innovation, as measured by the number of new chemical entities appearing on the market for a given … the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming more difficult and expensive over time, as costs of …