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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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Fingerprints of the visible hand : Chandlerian organizations and their inward looking malaise
Gambardella, Alfonso (contributor);  … - 2004
their inward looking or exploitationʺ attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning …. Among other things, this suggests that explorationʺ, which leads to the opening of new innovation trajectories, requires not …
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The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of "learning by doing" : Evidence from India
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Mathew, Nanditha - 2016
"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...
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Environmental dynamism, firm size and the economic productivity of R&D
Revilla, Antonio; Fernández Rodríguez, Zulima - In: Industry and innovation 20 (2013) 6, pp. 503-522
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Wages and productivity in Argentinian manufacturing : a structuralist and distributional firm-level analysis
Gómez, María Celeste; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2022
Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across sectors would enable emerging countries to...
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
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Defensive Innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
'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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Strategic interactions in public R&D across EU-15 countries : a spatial econometric analysis
Hammadou, Hakim; Paty, Sonia; Savona, Maria - 2012
Innovation, and more specifically national similarities in relation to (a) trade and economic size and (b) sectoral … ; National Systems of Innovation ; Complementarity public and private R&D ; Spatial interactions ; EU countries ; spatial dynamic …
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The agenda for evolutionary economics : results, dead ends, and challenges ahead
Dosi, Giovanni - 2022
forthcoming Manual, The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies. Part One: Innovation, Organization and Industrial Dynamics … returns. As summarized in this essays Part One of the Manual addresses in the foregoing perspective, (i) Innovation and … reader is warned against multiple risks of ''normalization'' by which 'evolution' is reduced to sheer 'innovation', and the …
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