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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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Does foreign entry spur innovation?

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2015

trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don’t catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. -- Innovation …

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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor); … - 2008

into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on … innovation. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation …

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The wrong kind of AI? : artificial intelligence and the future of labor demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union … wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … with process innovation. …

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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022

We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...

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