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Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 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 …

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …

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Property rights, optimal public enforcement, and growth

Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2011 - Revised vers.: November 27, 2011

We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an …

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Endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change in the neoclassical growth model

Irmen, Andreas; Tabakovic, Amer - 2015

innovation investments that increase the productivity of capital and labor in the performance of their respective tasks. These …

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The market for CEOs

Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...

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CEO compensation : evidence from the field

Edmans, Alex; Gosling, Tom; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We survey directors and investors on the objectives, constraints, and determinants of CEO pay. 67% of directors would sacrifice shareholder value to avoid controversy on CEO pay, implying they face significant constraints other than participation and incentive compatibility. These constraints...

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Executive compensation : a survey of theory and evidence

Edmans, Alex; Gabaix, Xavier; Jenter, Dirk - 2017

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on executive compensation. We start by presenting data on the level of CEO and other top executive pay over time and across firms, the changing composition of pay; and the strength of executive incentives. We compare pay in U.S. public...

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