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Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth

Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

-country dynamic Ricardian model with endogenous innovation and hold-up problems, the value chain consists of two activities …, innovation and production. Entry in the market happens through R&D and entrants face two decisions. The 'location decision … perform innovation and production within the same vertically integrated structure or not. In this framework, the quality of …

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Growth, Distance to Frontier and Composition of Human Capital

Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skill intensive …

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a ‘political replacement effect.’ Innovations often erode elites’ incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political...

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Financial Institutions and the Wealth of Nations: Tales of Development

Tong, Jian; Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

institutions in selecting R&D projects (including both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … effective for innovation. This regime, however, requires more decentralized decision-making, which in turn depends on contract …

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Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason for why poor people remain poor. This Paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion programme to provide empirical evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian central bank mandated that a commercial bank could open a...

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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences

Caselli, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production and efficiency. It answers the question ‘how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to...

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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Many observers have declared the ‘New Economy’ to be an Industrial Revolution even more important than the Second Industrial Revolution of 1860-1900, and this Paper raises doubts about this comparison. It shows that the recent acceleration in productivity growth in the US economy can be...

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Machines as Engines of Growth

Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks. This enables the economy to experience long-run growth, as machines become servants of humans, and as their number can grow unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is...

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In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation and Economic Performance

Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country’s own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little ‘policy experimentation’. Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...

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