causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …

scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous … growth model that reconciles the current aggregate trends in energy use and productivity growth with the intertemporal …

We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area … exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data covering several years after implementation of restructuring. The … estimation compares how investor-owned (IOs) plants in states with restructuring changed their behavior relative to IOs in states …