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expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …
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policy is likely to increase global emissions. -- technical change ; climate change ; development ; innovation ; spillovers …
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. The second issue is whether environmental policy increases or decreases total investment and innovation. Even when … rate of innovation, which crowds out production and consumption, and thus makes environmental policy more costly. Finally … ; innovation policy ; induced technical change ; pollution-saving technical change ; pollution-using technical change ; crowding …
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This paper reviews selected fiscal policy initiatives undertaken by US states to encourage job creation and innovation … policies targeted to the biotechnology industry, and a broad set of tax policies that attract star scientists. The experiences … creating jobs and spurring innovation. The paper concludes with four other considerations need to be taken into account in …
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This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
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Evidence for the United States suggests balanced growth despite falling investment-good prices and less than unitary elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa.s theorem to show that introducing human capital...
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gains taxation, innovation subsidies, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …
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We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …
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We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors...
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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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