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We address the question of whether growth and welfare can be higher in crisis prone economies. First, we show that there is a robust empirical link between per-capita GDP growth and negative skewness of credit growth across countries with active financial markets. That is, countries that have...
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We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations, but differs by tieing these...
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We study asset-pricing implications of innovation in a general-equilibrium overlapping-generations economy. Innovation … capital of older workers. Due to the lack of inter-generational risk sharing, innovation creates a systematic risk factor …
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Recent research on financial market valuation of the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms is surveyed. The motivation for using a market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature that relates...
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It is known that innovations in the market value of manufacturing firms and their RhD expenditures are related (Pakes (1985) and Mairesse and Siu (1984)). This could be due to shifts in the demand for the output of a particular firm, to shifts in the technological opportunities available to the...
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The effect of financial crises on innovation is an unsettled and important question for economic growth, but one … that local distress caused a sudden and persistent decline in patenting by the largest organizational form of innovation at …. Despite this, we find that innovation during crises can be more resilient than it may appear at first glance. First, there is …
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disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …
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discuss the implications of the risks we analyze for the total volume of medical innovation and for its organization across …
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We develop a general equilibrium model in which stock prices of innovative firms exhibit "bubbles" during technological revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During technological revolutions, the nature of this uncertainty...
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We test how market overvaluation affects corporate innovation. Estimated stock overvaluation is very strongly …
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