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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations

Easterly, William; Reshef, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We establish the following stylized facts: (1) Exports are characterized by Big Hits, (2) the Big Hits change from one period to the next, and (3) these changes are not explained by global factors like global commodity prices. These conclusions are robust to excluding extractable products (oil...

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The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence and Impact

Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Walsh, John P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

, suppliers and technology specialists. We also estimate the contribution of each source to innovation in the US economy. Although … rate of innovation in the economy. Indeed, results from a multinomial logit model suggest that, were the outside … availability of innovation to be removed, the percentage of innovating firms in the U.S. manufacturing sector would drop from 18 …

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The Globalization of the Software Industry: Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...

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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this … chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played … coal to oil, and briefly analyze two government programs that have attempted to promote innovation: synthetic rubber and …

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Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

Comin, Diego; Easterly, William; Gong, Erick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for...

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Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry

Arora, Ashish; Nandkumar, Anand - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

), especially in innovation based industries. Striving for a cash-out makes mistakes more likely and increases the probability of …

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Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry

Easterly, William; Satyanath, Shanker; Berger, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Do superpower interventions to install and prop up political leaders in other countries subsequently result in more or less democracy, and does this effect vary depending on whether the intervening superpower is democratic or authoritarian? While democracy may be expected to decline...

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Can the West Save Africa?

Easterly, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...

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Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development

Easterly, William; Levine, Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Does economic development depend on geographic endowments like temperate instead of tropical location, the ecological conditions shaping diseases, or an environment good for grains or certain cash crops? Or do these endowments of tropics, germs, and crops affect economic development only through...

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The European Origins of Economic Development

Easterly, William; Levine, Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...

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