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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …
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Market share, market value and innovation in a panel of British manufacturing firms
Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 66 (1999) 3, pp. 529-554
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Trade induced technical change? : the impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and poductivity
Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 83 (2016) 1, pp. 87-117
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Unemployment compensation and the allocation of labor in developing countries
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - 2013
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293204
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278505
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Efficiency in a search and matching economy with a competitive informal sector
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - 2012
We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290000
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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960130
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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744669
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839271