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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
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. The main contribution of this paper is to model the innovation channel of finance explicitly. The paper focuses … particularly on the interaction term between the measure of own innovation and financial development. As countries approach the … technological frontier, own innovation becomes more important to sustain a high growth rate. An adequate level of financial …
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Economic interest in innovation policy largely arises from the fundamental importance of innovation to social welfare … and from inefficiencies in innovation in a competitive market environment. As a result, a wide variety of public … innovation policies are used in practice. This study reviews the economic justifications for public innovation policies and …
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This is the first paper that examines economies of scale in stock exchanges. The data employed in the study include cost and output statistics for 37 stock exchanges in four continents around the world for the year 1997. I estimate two traditional cost functions and find that ray (overall) scale...
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This paper investigates the existence and extent of economies of scale and scope among stock exchanges. Evidence from 38 exchanges in 32 countries and 4 continents around the world for the years 1989-1998 indicates the existence of significant economies of scale and scope. The degree of such...
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The paper investigates the existence and extent of economies of scale in depository and settlement systems. Evidence from 16 settlement institutions across different regions for the years 1993–2000 indicates the existence of significant economies of scale. The degree of such economies,...
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European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance...
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We study a financial market adverse selection model where all agents are endowed with initial wealth and choose to invest as entrepreneurs or financiers, or not to invest. We show that often a lack of outside finance leads to the emergence of financial markets where availability of outside...
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We study the value of innovation in a case study of one of the most visible innovative products in recent years, Apple …
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