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Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We … discuss the effects of standard setting activities by large, often public, procurers on innovation races. We evaluate how …

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The Innovation, Unemployment and Competitiveness Challenge in Germany

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with …

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Microfoundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of micro-foundations, based on sharing, matching, and learning mechanisms. For each of these three categories, we develop one or more core models in detail and discuss the literature...

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Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the International Division of Labour

Jansen, Marion; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We incorporate equilibrium unemployment due to imperfect matching into a model of trade in intermediate inputs (Ethier (1982)). Firms are assumed to be price takers and their size is given by technology. Firms enter the market as long as expected profits cover the search cost they incur...

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The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Labour Supply and Education in an Economy with Household and Market Production

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper considers optimal educational investment and labour supply with increasing returns to scale in the earnings function In so doing we develop the work of Rosen (1983), who first highlighted the increasing returns argument that arises because private returns to human capital investment...

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Monopolistic Competition, Trade, and Endogenous Spatial Fluctuations

Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper investigates the possibility of endogenous fluctuations in the international distribution of economic activities in the presence of increasing returns, monopolistic competition, trade and convex adjustment costs without allowing for any local productive externalities. Using a...

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Indeterminacy in a Small Open Economy Ramsey Growth Model

Weder, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper presents a small open economy version of the Benhabib and Farmer [2] two sector optimal growth model with production externalities. It is shown that indeterminacy is considerably easier to obtain under a regime of perfect world capital markets than in the closed economy variant....

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Industrial Clusters: Equilibrium, Welfare and Policy

Norman, Victor D; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that will arise in a multi-country world in which, because of increasing returns to scale, one sector has a propensity to cluster. It compares the equilibrium with the world welfare maximum, showing that the equilibrium will generally...

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On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when they exert intra-firm spillovers on each other. We allow for arbitrary spillovers provided output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium...

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Convergence, Endogenous Growth, and Productivity Disturbances

Leung, Charles K; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Kelly (1992) has recently shown that evidence on convergence cannot be taken as evidence against endogenous growth in general. This study uses a well-known class of stochastic growth models to show other difficulties with traditional empirical studies of convergence. Key parameters typically...

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