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The role of innovation and entrepreneurship in economic growth
Andrews, Michael Jeffrey (ed.); Chatterji, Aaron (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
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Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds
Gordon, Robert J. - 2012
Even if innovation were to continue into the future at the rate of the two decades before 2007, the U.S. faces six …
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Escape from the commodity trap : will the production transformation sustain productivity, growth and jobs?
Zysman, John - Europäische Kommission - 2014
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The Old and the New in U.S. Economic Expansion of the 1990s
Zarnowitz, Victor - 2000
Some analysts see the expansion of the 1990s as uniquely long and strong. Moreover, according to one popular view, the noninflationary boom can continue indefinitely. To shed some light on this debate, this paper compares the 1990s systematically with two previous long economic expansions, using...
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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999
Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic financial structure predated by three decades the canals, railroads, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471335
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The Great Transition : Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Marto, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs...
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Labor Market Dynamics When Ideas are Harder to Find
Bilal, Adrien; Engbom, Niklas; Mongey, Simon; Violante, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper evaluates the impact of slowing economic growth on labor market dynamism and misallocation. It provides a model of endogenous growth via imitation in a frictional labor market. The framework accounts for rich data on worker job-to-job transitions as well as stochastic and lifecycle...
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Real Exchange Rates and Productivity Growth in the United States and Japan
Marston, Richard C. - 1986
Real exchange rates between the yen and dollar based on general price indexes overestimate the competitiveness of the United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a continuous fall in the prices of traded goods relative to...
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The International Economics of Transitional Growth : The Case of the United States
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1981
This paper develops a general equilibrium two country, two commodity dynamic simulation model of international trade in commodities and financial claims. The model generalizes the Heckscher-Ohlin static theory of trade by incorporating costs of quickly adjusting levels of capital stocks in...
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