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Induced innovation, inventors, and the energy transition
Dugoua, Eugenie; Gerarden, Todd D. - 2023
increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383723
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Skill policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002576887
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Uncertainty, imperfect information, and expectation formation over the firm's life cycle
Chen, Cheng; Senga, Tatsuro; Sun, Chang; Zhang, Hongyong - 2020
Using a long-panel dataset of Japanese firms that contains firm-level sales forecasts, we provide evidence on firm-level uncertainty and imperfect information over their life cycle. We find that firms make non-negligible and positively correlated forecast errors. However, they make more precise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258487
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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition
Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996418
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Global collaborative patents
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561206
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Medicare and the rise of American medical patenting : the economics of user-driven innovation
Clemens, Jeffrey; Olsen, Morten - 2021
Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model ….S. Medicare program on medical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program's aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500504
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Demographic structure and macroeconomic trends
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; Smith, Ron; Grasl, Tobias - 2016
workers contribute positively. We propose a theoretical model, highlighting the relationship between demographics, innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457979
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Subsidizing national champions : an evolutionary perspective
Aubert, Cécile (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor);  … - 2008
A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749485
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013
causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792180