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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector

Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2021

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in...

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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011

With fortuitously timed data collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria, we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary impact...

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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Dostie, Benoit - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Grossmann, Volker - 2007

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part …

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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019

Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns...

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