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This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade … to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of quality growth and the corresponding cross-sectional variance of … quality growth in a country are positively correlated. Second, both the mean and variance of quality changes are positively …
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How are inventors allocated in the US economy and does that allocation affect innovative capacity? To answer these questions, we first build a model of creative destruction where an inventor with a new idea has the possibility to work for an entrant or incumbent firm. If the inventor works for...
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Innovation is a key driver of long run economic growth. Studying innovation requires a clear view of the …
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correlated with economic growth, there are many high income countries that primarily produce using diffused ideas. Additionally … reliance on diffused technology …
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high-growth entrepreneurs. Our respondents together account for nearly $1 trillion in assets under management. Each …
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technology. We review these assumptions and how they deliver a unified framework underlying a wide range of static and dynamic …
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We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job … tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent …
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Industrialized countries have long seen relatively stable growth in output per capita and a stable labor share. AI may … may happen by placing several strands of the literature on AI and growth within a common framework. We first evaluate … automation, capturing the notion that AI will let capital "self-replicate". This typically speeds up growth and lowers the labor …
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are damped in countries that impose minimum capital requirements on new firms. Firms with largescale legacy technology may … avoid radical innovations that devalue that technology. Consequently, new, initially small and risky firms often develop the … disruptive innovations that contribute most to economic growth. Consistent with this, we also find pro-debtor PBL reforms …
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-enhancing investments (technology). Empirically, less developed countries feature higher distortions and larger dispersion in firm …-thirds of cross-country labor productivity differences. Both selection and technology channels are important. Variation in …
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