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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2007

We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (S&T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the S&T field in which they are working....

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Openness, Technology Capital, and Development

McGrattan, Ellen - 2007

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research and development, brands, and organization capital. What...

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Implementing Technology

Comin, Diego - 2007

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology …

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Growth and Intellectual Property

Boldrin, Michele - 2006

encouragement of creation and innovation. Optimal policy depends on the quantitative strength of these two forces. We give a …

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Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment

Marimon, Ramon - 2006

We study how barriers to competition---such as restrictions to business start-up and strict enforcement of covenants or IPR---affect the investment in knowledge capital when contracts are not enforceable. These barriers lower the competition for human capital and reduce the incentive to...

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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Mortality Reduction, and Economic Growth

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1998

We perform an econometric investigation of the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to mortality reduction and … pharmaceutical innovation, there would have been no increase and perhaps even a small decrease in mean age at death, and that new … drugs have increased life expectancy, and lifetime income, by about 0.75-1.0% per annum. The drug innovation measures are …

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Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition

Hausman, Jerry A. - 1994

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) attempts to answer the question of how much more (or less) income does a consumer require to be as well off in period 1 as in period 0 given changes in prices, changes in the quality of goods, and the introduction of new goods (or the disappearance of existing...

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