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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …. The model provides a good fit to the dynamics of firm entry and exit, output and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of …
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"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …
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framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry of new firms and productivity improvements by continuing firms. Unlike … productivity improvements by incumbents in response to reduced entry, which may outweigh the positive effect of greater creative … destruction. As the model features entry of new firms and expansion and exit of existing firms, it also generates a non …
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. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …
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choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per …
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This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The crucial ingredient in our model is that the current employer has superior information about the worker's ability relative to other firms. This informational advantage gives the...
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …
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The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the theory is augmented to allow for...
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In his well-known analysis of the national debt, Robert Barro introduced the notion of a "dynastic family." This notion has since become a standard research tool, particularly in the areas of public finance and macroeconomics. In this paper, we critique the assumptions upon which the dynastic...
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