How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth … innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity and quality of inventive activity and shift … to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters …