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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
Acemoglu, Daron (contributor); Arrow, Kenneth J. (contributor) - 2012
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain … relating to the economics of innovation and technological change while revisiting the findings of a classic book. Central to … public and private sectors affects innovation. Other essays examine the practice of open research and how the diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014482604
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Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780794
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Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2019
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900520
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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151064