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The Diffusion of ICTs and Growth of the French Economy over the Long-term, 1980-2000

Cette, Gilbert; Mairesse, Jacques; Kocoglu, Yusuf - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 27-38

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in the second half of the 1990s. In this article, Gilbert Cette from the Bank of France and the University of Aix-Marseilles II, Jacques Mairesse of INSEE-CREST, and Yusef Kocoglu...

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Research, Innovation, and Productivity : An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level

Crepon, Bruno - 1998

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Mortality Reduction, and Economic Growth

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1998

We perform an econometric investigation of the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to mortality reduction and … pharmaceutical innovation, there would have been no increase and perhaps even a small decrease in mean age at death, and that new … drugs have increased life expectancy, and lifetime income, by about 0.75-1.0% per annum. The drug innovation measures are …

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The Effect of Pharmaceutical Utilization and Innovation on Hospitalization and Mortality

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1996

This paper presents an econometric analysis of the effect of changes in the quantity and type of pharmaceuticals prescribed by physicians in outpatient visits on rates of hospitalization, surgical procedure, mortality, and related variables. It examines the statistical relationship across...

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Innovation and Welfare : Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions

Jaumandreu, Jordi - 2010

that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …

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Has medical innovation reduced cancer mortality?

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during …Under the assumption that there were no pre-dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would … have been parallel trends in mortality in the absence of innovation, the estimates indicate that there were three major …

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Using Innovations Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Mairesse, Jacques - 2010

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …

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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...

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Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians : a first look

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2008

We examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on the longevity of Australians during the period 1995-2003. Due to …

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