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greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …
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innovation hotspots. We find that a commuting zone which is an additional 200km (125 miles) from the closest AI hotspot has 17 …
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Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...
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- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part …
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innovation, especially for firms further from the frontier, and that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and … international trade 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 …
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We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative …, trademarks and innovation surveys. We also establish connections between launches and previous innovative activity. We then link …
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Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal of distributive justice. In spite of its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward and upward biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These...
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A handful of studies have investigated the effects of robots on workers in advanced economies. According to a recent report from the World Bank (2016), 1.8 billion jobs in developing countries are susceptible to automation. Given the inability of labor markets to adjust to rapid changes, there...
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We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...
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Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
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