contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up … to the technology frontier. …

manufacturing. Finally, we find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that national infrastructure (i.e., transport …-related infrastructure and rail lines) can alleviate the lagging behind of landlocked regions. …

This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … innovation cycles, stressing that only an evolutionary, multi-disciplinary, systems approach embracing technology, finance, and … millennia, although at times it has been pivotal in bringing innovation, taking risks and driving efficiency. It is argued that …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be …

of job loss vary according to the innovation-related strategies adopted by firms. We take advantage of a unique dataset … firms. We find that the relationship between technological innovations and job insecurity is moderated by firms' technology …

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot easily be controlled for. The innovation of Acemoglu, Johnson and … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous …