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Engineering Growth : Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Valencia Caicedo, Felipe - 2021

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2016

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051272

Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051273

Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas - 2014

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government …

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The Lindahl Equilibrium in Schumpeterian Growth Models : Knowledge Diffusion, Social Value of Innovations and Optimal R&D Incentives

Gray, Elie - 2014

What is the social value of innovations in Schumpeterian growth models? This issue is tackled by introducing the concept of Lindahl equilibrium in a standard endogenous growth model with vertical innovations which is extended by explicitly considering knowledge diffusion on a Salop (1979)...

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Using the Salop Circle to Study Scale Effects in Schumpeterian Growth Models : Why Inter-Sectoral Knowledge Diffusion Matters

Gray, Elie - 2016

This paper analyzes the link between the fact that fully endogenous growth models exhibit (or not) the non-desirable scale effects property and assumptions regarding the intensity of knowledge diffusion. In that respect, we extend a standard Schumpeterian growth model by introducing explicitly...

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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2016

Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...

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Plunging into the Sea : Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China

Yang, Jin - 2018

This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after …

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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth

Anderlini, Luca - 2014

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a flexible one (law set after observing current technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at...

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