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distorting innovation decisions. When agents hold recursive preferences, misallocation-driven low-frequency growth fluctuations …
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We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through … more R&D toward key sectors that are upstream in the innovation network. Second, we extend to an open-economy setting and … spillovers has less incentive to direct resources toward innovation-upstream sectors, leading to cross-country differences in …
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We examine the dynamics of a country's growth, consumption, and sovereign debt, assuming that the government is myopic and wants to maximize short-term, self-interested spending. Surprisingly, government myopia can increase a country's access to external borrowing. In turn, access to borrowing...
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What quantitative lessons can we learn from models of endogenous technical change through innovative investments by firms for the impact of changes in the economic environment on the dynamics of aggregate productivity in the short, medium, and long run? We present a unifying model that nests a...
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We study the persistent effects of temporary changes in U.S. federal corporate and personal income tax rates using a narrative identification approach. A corporate income tax cut leads to a sustained increase in GDP and productivity, with peak effects between five and eight years. R&D spending...
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present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
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We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … balance of adoption and innovation determines the shape of the distribution; innovation stretches the distribution, while … adoption compresses it. Whether and how innovation and diffusion contribute to aggregate growth depends on the support of the …
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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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through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …
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Recent work has revived the Schumpeterian hypothesis that recessions facilitate innovation and growth. But a major …
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