innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …

How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question …", who exploit the patent system to extract rents and thereby hurt innovation. We employ unprecedented access to NPE … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …

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 …