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story that many ignore or claim it cannot be replicated. Using a theory and empirical evidence, we argue that one can learn …
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This paper examines how endogenizing technological progress in a multicountry macroeconometric model affects the analysis of fiscal policies. It uses an expanded version of the IMF’s multicountry model, MULTIMOD, in which total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenized as a function of domestic...
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&D), which are endogenized through financial institutions. The theory and its results shed lights on the debate of convergence …
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This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are...
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To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R and D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … and innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with …, while economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e.'if the market size is …
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The paper analyses the effect of the stock market on firm innovation through the lens of initial public offering (IPO … firm innovation activity. In addition, IPOs expand a firm's scope of innovation beyond its core business. The impact of … IPOs on firm innovation varies across financial constraints, corporate governance, and ownership structures. Our results …
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Governments frequently assist troubled banks. This paper examines the fiscal aspects of such assistance: rationale, design criteria, methods, and macroeconomic implications. It concludes that (1) banks should be assisted only when there is a clear systemic risk; (2) assistance should be tied to...
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inequality are characterized by dynamism-a drive toward sophisticated export industries, innovation, and creative destruction and …
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traces the sources of TFP growth in the UK over the last two decades through the lens of a structural model of innovation …, using registry data on the universe of firms. The dominant innovation source in the pre-GFC decade were improvements by … recovery, survey data suggests that creative destruction (i.e., innovation replacing other firms' products) is expected to gain …
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diffusion this is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate change. But when innovation can diffuse overseas, long … energy, and later by innovation induced by research subsidies. Green production subsidies are ineffective because they … undermine incentives for innovation …
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