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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our framework highlights a number of novel results. First, standardization is … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show …
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A retrospective on the classical gold standard, 1821 - 1931
Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Schwartz, Anna Jacobson (contributor) - 1984
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International dimensions of monetary policy : [... presented at the NBER Conference "International Dimensions of Monetary Policy", which was held June 11 through 13, 2007 ... in th...
Galí, Jordi (contributor); Gertler, Mark (contributor) - 2009
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Financial development and growth in the short and long run
Fisman, Raymond - 2004
"We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...
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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2010
Clarida, Richard H. (ed.); Giavazzi, Francesco (contributor) - ISOm <33, 2010, Amsterdam> - 2011
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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2006
Reichlin, Lucrezia (contributor);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2008
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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...
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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000
This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...
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Quantifying Quality Growth
Bils, Mark - 2000
We introduce an instrumental variables approach to estimate the importance of unmeasured quality growth for a set of 66 durable consumer goods. Our instrument is based on predicting which of these 66 goods will display rapid quality growth. Using pooled cross- relatively sections of households...
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