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The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...
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The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of unified Germany. It emphasises the role of private and public capital accumulati on during the developing process. The theoretical part derives fiscal policy rules which establish convergence of...
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gains taxation, innovation subsidies, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …
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, we empirically analyze the determinants of innovation in electricity generation, and the role of storage in directing … innovation. Our results show that electricity storage increases innovation not only in renewables but also in conventional … technologies. This implies that efforts to increase innovation in storage can benefit conventional, fossil fuel-fired electricity …
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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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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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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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Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …
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The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …
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