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Kornai, János - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

The introduction explains the sense in which the concept of a paradigm, whose originator, T.S. Kuhn, was inspired by the history of the national sciences, is applied to the context of the social sciences. Here the new paradigm does not necessarily replace the old; several paradigms may function...

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Competition, Innovation and Growth in Transition: Exploring the Interactions between Policies

Aghion, Philippe; Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

relationship between competition and innovation, Aghion, Dewatripont and Rey (1999) showed that this could be reversed if agency …

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The Link between Innovation and Productivity in Estonia’s Service Sectors

Vahter, Priit; Masso, Jaan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

The emerging literature on the characteristics of innovation processes in the service sector has paid relatively little … attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation … of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community …

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...

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Financial Development and Technology

Tadesse, Solomon - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

innovation. In particular, industries whose younger firms depend more on external finance realize faster rate of technological …

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Innovation, Information and Financial Architecture

Tadesse, Solomon - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

market-based systems have a general positive effect on innovations in all economic sectors, bank-based systems foster more … architecture. Thus, the relative performance of bank-based systems vis-à-vis market-based systems depends on the industrial …

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Does FDI spur innovation, productivity and knowledge sourcing by incumbent firms? Evidence from manufacturing industry in Estonia

Vahter, Priit - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … innovation. The results show significant positive correlation between the entry of FDI in a sector and the more direct measures …

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Financial Development and Technology

Tadesse, Solomon - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

innovation. In particular, industries whose younger firms depend more on external finance realize faster rate of technological …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784702

Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics and Economic Performance: Evidence from the American States

Berkowitz, Daniel; Clay, Karen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

. We then use initial legal systems and climate to quantify the substantial impact of current institutions on current …

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Accounting for Growth in Post-Soviet Russia

Berkowitz, Daniel; DeJong, David N.; Berkowitz, Daniel; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1999

In pursuit of its transition from a command to a market economy, post-Soviet Russia has witnessed enormous regional differences in economic growth rates. Moreover, the economic reforms implemented under this transition, while initiated at the federal level, have also differed markedly across...

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