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Garg, Prashant; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

We analyze over 44,000 economics working papers from 1980–2023 using a custom language model to construct knowledge graphs mapping economic concepts and their relationships, distinguishing between general claims and those supported by causal inference methods. The share of causal claims within...

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A General Equilibrium Theory of Occupational Choice Under Optimistic Beliefs About Entrepreneurial Ability

Dell'Era, Michele - 2019

to entrepreneurship, and output. The calibration shows that optimism can explain the empirical puzzle of the low mean … returns to entrepreneurship compared to average wages …

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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...

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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India

Verma, Saumya - 2020

How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India's major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …

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The Dynamics of Finance-Growth-Inequality Nexus : Theory and Evidence for India

Das, Pranab Kumar - 2019

The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth ‘nexus’ to finance-growth-inequality ‘nexus’ in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study...

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International Outsourcing and the Supply Side Productivity Determinants

Goswami, Arti Grover - 2021

A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone organization and fits somewhere in between the value chain of its client's business. Thus, conventional factors like wages, capital, rent, energy consumption cannot...

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Nonlinear Business Cycle and Optimal Policy : A VSTAR Perspective

Polito, Vito - 2020

-equivalent nonlinear quadratic regulator (NLQR) problem is derived. Optimal rules are calculated by adapting from the engineering theory …

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Distribution and Use of Knowledge Under the 'Laws of the Web'

Falkinger, Josef - 2021

Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a mass of producers and users of knowledge interact through a distribution medium. This paper considers the consequences of this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In...

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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity

Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; van … - 2014

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

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Creative destruction and productive preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

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