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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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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762377
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597443
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262329
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Secular Satiation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017
satiation. This, despite that the social costs of innovation are second order compared to their social benefits. Multiple … savings reduces interest rates, which boosts the rate of innovation. When TFP grows exogenously and labor supply is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744591
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497983
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001414740
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595592
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486