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We study the relationship between patents and actual product innovation in the market, and how this relationship varies … consumer goods sector. We find that patent filings are positively associated with subsequent product innovation by firms, but … at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …
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government provide incentives for innovation in a fiscally sustainable way? We address this question by examining the Ramsey … problem of finding optimal tax and subsidy schemes in a model in which growth is endogenously sustained by risky innovation …. We characterize the shadow value of growth and entry in the innovation sector. We find that a profit tax is required to …
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reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …
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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 …
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technological lead spawn more successful spinouts. Building on these observations, I build a structural model of innovation and firm … dynamics, where firm heterogeneity arises from endogenous decisions of innovation workers to become entrepreneurs and create … affecting employee entrepreneurship for aggregate innovation and growth …
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We introduce uncertainty into Holmstrom and Milgrom (1987) to study optimal long-term contracting with learning. In a dynamic relationship, the agent's shirking not only reduces current performance but also increases the agent's information rent due to the persistent belief manipulation effect....
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This paper examines the determination of the rate of growth in an economy in which two political parties, each representing a different social class, negotiate the magnitude and allocation of taxes. Taxes may increase growth if they finance public services but reduce growth when used to...
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We develop a new monthly panel survey of business executives and a new question design that elicits subjective probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began in 2014 and now covers 1,500 firms drawn from all 50...
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We draw on the monthly Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) to make three observations about pandemic-era uncertainty in the U.S. economy. First, equity market traders and executives of nonfinancial firms share similar assessments about uncertainty at one-year lookahead horizons. That is, the...
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