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Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question … invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish inventors and the distance to the nearest technical university as an instrument …
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We model technological and financial innovation as reflecting the decisions of profit maximizing agents and explore the implications for economic growth. We start with a Schumpeterian endogenous growth model where entrepreneurs earn monopoly profits by inventing better goods and financiers arise...
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rates. Further, the S&P 500 market seems to be well integrated, and the NASDAQ is generally (but not always) integrated. The …
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assets traded on a given market share the same EMRS. The technique is also powerful enough to reject integration between the …
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if the Southern market is sufficiently small relative to the North’s. The South can avert AD war with the North by … expanding the home market size. It may however trigger AD war by improving its R&D capability. The model yields results that are …
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Using a unique firm-level dataset this study shows that, contrary to the hopes of transition economies, foreign investors in the region are characterized by low, rather than high, R&D intensity. The results also indicate that investors with higher R&D spending are more likely to engage in...
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This paper investigates how the mode of entry into a foreign market can be influenced by the intensity of R&D in an … study the effect of the IPR regime of the host country (South) on a multinational’s decision between serving a market via …&D spillovers to a third firm under imperfect IPRs. JV is the equilibrium market structure when extra rents can be gained from a JV …
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the market, and therefore, R&D becomes appropriable. Even though the innovation level remains the same as under free trade …
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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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We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant not to compete (CNC) reduces effort and profits under both spot and relational contracts. Having no CNC allows the researcher to leave for a rival. This alleviates a...
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