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innovation—in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though … US energy sector. The model's quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite …
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An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...
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An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …
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. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …
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We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking historical U … macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive relationship between innovation and drivers of regional performance … delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated …
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How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation policies …
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choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per …
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choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …
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