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Meditating on "Slow Growth in Africa" - New Evidence or Just Ol' Stuff?

Amavilah, V. Heinrich - EconWPA - 2003

This abstract will be reformatted upon submission. You don't need to format for line-breaks here!!!!! This will be a new paragraph but you can't indent - sorry. Now remember the good old days of cards. Punched holes in The Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer, 1999: 3-114) published a...

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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By applying parametric and...

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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004

We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...

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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

Plenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable...

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The Productivity Gap between East and West Europe: What Role for Sectoral Structures during Integration?

Stephan, Johannes - EconWPA - 2004

Analysis into the sources of lower levels of national productivities between Central East European Economies and the European Union is scarce and lacks comparability. These sources are assessed by analysing the role played by sectoral structures. After providing a brief overview over comparative...

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Sectoral Shift, Wealth Distribution, and Development

Yuki, Kazuhiro - EconWPA - 2005

There are two phenomena widely observed when an economy departs from an underdeveloped state and starts rapid economic growth. One is the shift of production, employment, and consumption from the traditional sector to the modern sector, and the other is a large increase in educational levels of...

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ACCELERATE YOUR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – AN ECCENTRIC BICIRCUALR MODEL & SOLUTIONS.

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

In the Universe of Development Economics, Social Development is represented by Endogenous Circle linking Domestic Technology with Domestic Human Potential (Technical Infrastructure) & Economic Development is represented by Exogenous Circle linking Domestic Investment with Domestic Saving...

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To B or Not To B: A Welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model

Xie, Danyang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper studies the welfare consequences of a government regulation that forces a patented equipment to be supplied by a number of independent producers. On the one hand, such a regulation hurts the value of a patent and therefore reduces activities in the R&D sector. On the other hand, the...

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Government Policies toward Information and Communication

Willmore, Larry - EconWPA - 2004

The development of what one might call 'modern' systems of information and communication began with the Gutenberg printing press in the 15th century, and progressed through the prepaid postal system, electric telegraph and telephone in the 19th century, radio and television broadcasting in the...

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Is Innovation King at the Antitrust Agencies? The Intellectual Property Guidelines Five Years Later

Gilbert, Richard J.; Tom, Willard K. - EconWPA - 2001

innovation in high-technology markets. Traditionally, regulators focused on whether companies artificially hiked prices or … reduced output. Now, they're increasingly likely to look first at whether corporate behavior aids or impedes innovation. In … this paper, we examine whether innovation has displaced short-term price effects as the focus of antitrust enforcement by …

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