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Segerstrom, Paul S.; Stepanok, Ignat - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...

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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-shot development race

Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

much of the cumulative innovation literature. When the research abilities of the firms differ, either the high ability firm …

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Innovation and Productivity in European Industries

Pianta, Mario; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …

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(In)determinacy, bargaining, and R&D policies in an economy with endogenous technological change

Lai, Chung-hui - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In this paper, the author shows how the introduction of a bargaining game structure into a standard R&D endogenous growth model can be a potential source of local indeterminacy. He also shows that on a high-growth path, the government, by directly engaging in R&D activities and using R&D...

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Entrepreneurship, knowledge, and the industrial revolution

Attar, M. Aykut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs' role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its...

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Is Regional Innovative Activity Path-dependent? An Empirical Analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

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Innovation and Growth in Regions with Specific Geographical Features

Dahl, Juliana - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Since the year 2000, innovation and the path towards a “knowledge-based” economy have become prominent concepts in the … matter, very little is known about the ability to translate innovation into regional growth in territories with geographical … disadvantages. The present paper discusses the intensified emphasis of the European policy approach towards innovation and its …

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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs

Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...

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Exporting and the Environment: A New Look with Micro-Data

Girma, Sourafel; Hanley, Aoife; Tintelnot, Felix - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

innovation as having a ‘high’ or ‘very high’ environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more … likely, all things equal, to report that their firm’s innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with …

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