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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670637
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Buy, Keep or Sell: Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas
Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp; Greenwood, Jeremy - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822927
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Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674319
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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692367
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The Ability to Adapt and Overcome Obstacles: Machinery Exports of Poland
Kellman, Mitchell H.; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012
From 1980-2009 the Polish economy experienced structural dislocation. The growth and success of the Solidarity movement represented the shift in manufacturing from Soviet bloc trade to membership in the European Union. This paper examines four independent metrics that measure the changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650275
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945141
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Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822886
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HRM and Workplace Motivation: Incremental and Threshold Effects
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other positive effects of a motivational type. We present a theoretical framework in which motivational effects of HRM are conditional on its intensity, utilizing especially the idea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365661
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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?
Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854565
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Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001
effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016782