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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …

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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?

Fackler, Thomas - 2019

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …

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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence

Bahar, Dany - 2019

We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...

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Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019)

Heer, Burkhard - 2019

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...

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Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change : Implications for Climate Change Mitigation

Casey, Gregory - 2022

I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy interventions on ﬁnal-use energy consumption, an important driver of carbon emissions. In the model, energy demand is driven by directed technical change. Energy supply is subject to...

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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data

Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023

We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century …. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …

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Unraveling the fortunes of the fortunate: an Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) approach

Eicher, Theo S.; Papageorgiou, Chris; Roehn, Oliver - 2007

We investigate country heterogeneity in cross-country growth regressions. In contrast to the previous literature that focuses on low-income countries, this study also highlights growth determinants in high-income (OECD) countries. We introduce Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) to address...

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A panel data investigation of real exchange rate misalignment and growth

MacDonald, Ronald; Vieira, Flávio - 2010

The paper investigates the role of real exchange rate misalignment on long-run growth for a set of ninety countries using time series data from 1980 to 2004. We first estimate a panel data model (using fixed and random effects) for the real exchange rate, with different model specifications, in...

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A rise by any other name?: sensitivity of growth regressions to data source

Hanousek, Jan; Hájková, Dana; Filer, Randall - 2007

Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...

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