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City Competition for the Creative Class
Buettner, Thiess - 2013
This paper explores the conditions under which decentralization and fiscal competition lead to a policy of subsidizing cultural activities. A theoretical analysis discusses these subsidies as a form of local public good provision which makes a city more attractive to highly educated individuals....
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjotta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2021
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315724
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690377
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977470
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056813
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984503
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Processing Immigration Shocks : Firm Responses on the Innovation Margin
Gray, Rowena - 2017
. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947625
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Environmental Policy Design and the Fragmentation of International Markets for Innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - CESifo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000383
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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034642
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How Do Incentives Affect Creativity?
Eckartz, Katharina - 2013
We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088804