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Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …
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This paper reviews selected fiscal policy initiatives undertaken by US states to encourage job creation and innovation … creating jobs and spurring innovation. The paper concludes with four other considerations need to be taken into account in …
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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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Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...
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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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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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globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of … cooperation and trade. Two case studies illustrate how innovation policy might be used to achieve technological sovereignty. …
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measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
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