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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multiproduct 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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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade ﬂows, in a world with … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …, dynamically, intensiﬁed globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …

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INNOVATION, REALLOCATION AND GROWTH

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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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 …

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