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Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the … destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP … the process of destruction. Consequently, the contribution of recent innovations to NNP and to welfare is likely biased …
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theories of Hayek, Wicksell and Schumpeter. We argue that ample liquidity supply originating in the large industrialized …
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The paper advances the log-generalized gamma distribution as a suitable generator of conditional skewness. Based on the NYSE composite daily returns an asMA-asQGARCH model along with skewness dynamics is estimated. The results indicate a skewness that varies between sizeable negative skewness...
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This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...
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This paper puts the original Reinhart-Rogoff dataset, made public by Herndon et al. (2013), to a formal econometric test to pin down debt threshold endogenously. We show that the nonlinear relation from debt to growth is not very robust. Taken with a pinch of salt, our results suggest, however,...
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nonlinear relationship between debt and growth is very sensitive to modelling choices. We also show that when nonlinearity is …
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innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …. This shifts economic activity towards firms specializing in process and product innovation and triggers entry of new start … innovations and firms. …
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In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …
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. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also …
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be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R …
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