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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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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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portfolio strategy, on firms' innovation activities and innovation strategies. Relying on plausibly exogenous variation in … institutional ownership, while firms' countable innovation activities increase, they shift their innovation strategies by focusing … institutional investors through active votes could explain their positive effects on firms' innovation activities. Increasing risk …
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This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to …
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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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We develop a model to analyze the implications of firing costs on incentives for R & D and international specialization. The key idea is that, to avoid paying firing costs, the country with a rigid labor market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at a late stage of their product life...
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