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We propose a new fiscal transmission channel based on countercyclical monopsony power in the labor market. We develop a Two-Agent New Keynesian model incorporating a time-varying degree of monopsony power, with workers valuing various job aspects and firms having wage-setting power, inversely...
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A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper, we propose that there may be a direct effect as well as an indirect effect via export activity. We test these hypotheses for sectoral R&D intensities using OECD panel data for...
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efficiency, labor productivity, and growth. We also include imports into the knowledge production function, because catching up … economies may adopt technologies embodied in imported hardware. Additionally, we link productivity and innovation output to … process innovation in all performance features except for labor productivity. However, higher efficiency does not improve the …
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We analyze the effect of new business formation on the productivity of incumbent manufacturing establishments. We … obtain robust empirical evidence of productivity improvements that are due to the emergence of new businesses in the same … new businesses on the input market and cross-industry effects are not related to incumbents’ productivity changes. The …
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. Labor productivity rises 8% at targets over two years post buyout (again, relative to controls), with large gains for both … public-to-private and private-to-private buyouts. Target productivity gains are larger yet for deals executed amidst tight … sharply curtails productivity gains in public-to-private and divisional buy-outs. Average earnings per worker fall by 1.7% at …
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show higher productivity levels as compared to those located in smaller regions, the role of an agglomeration is very … distinct depending on the foundation type. Spin-offs in larger regions tend to keep the higher productivity level shown in the …
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This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from the public sphere can effectively alter the economy's rate of technological change. We incorporate results of...
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Optimal control of dynamic econometric models has a wide variety of applications including economic policy relevant issues. There are several algorithms extending the basic case of a linear-quadratic optimization and taking nonlinearity and stochastics into account, but being still limited in a...
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This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries...
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"explains", to some extent, inflation. Modern macroeconomic theory, however, considers inflation targeting central banks which ….e. credit creation. A simple NKM model with fiat money demonstrates that money growth is tied to inflation, changes of output … and interest rate changes. The latter are determined by inflation and output gap if we consider an inflation …
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