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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from the great inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2004

Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...

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How reasonable is the reasonable royalty rate?: Damage rules and probabilistic intellectual property rights

Choi, Jay Pil - 2006

This paper investigates how different damage rules in patent infringement cases shape competition when intellectual …

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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity …

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Optimal energy investment and R&D strategies to stabilise Greenhouse Gas atmospheric concentrations

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007

objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid climate-energy-economy model, to obtain a quantitative assessment of some cost …-effective strategies that stabilise CO2 concentrations at 550 or 450 ppm. In particular, this paper analyses the energy investment and R … endogenous in WITCH, this paper also provides an assessment of the implications of technological evolution in the energy sector …

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International energy R&D spillovers and the economics of greenhouse gas atmospheric stabilization

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007

of mitigation possibilities and costs. This paper explores how international knowledge flows affect the dynamics of the …

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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model

Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004

We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is determined by the occupational choice of agents who can either work in production for a wage or become entrepreneurs. In this context, we examine the impact of redistributive...

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