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Harrison, Ann E.; Legros, Patrick; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as...

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Appropriate growth policy : a unifying framework ; Joseph Schumpeter lecture

Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 4 (2006) 2/3, pp. 269-314

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Intellectual property rights policy, competition and innovation

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 10 (2012) 1, pp. 1-42

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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits

Jackson, Matthew O.; Aghion, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...

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Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth

Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Martin, Ralf; van Reenen, John; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

Comin, Diego; Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

must be adapted. In such a country, local saving matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it allows the … innovation project, so local saving does not matter for growth. In our empirical exploration we show that lagged savings is …

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Contracts and the Division of Labor

Acemoglu, Daron; Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We develop a tractable framework for the analysis of the relationship between contractual incompleteness, technological complementarities, and technology adoption. In our model a firm chooses its technology and investment levels in contractible activities by suppliers of intermediate inputs....

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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.

Hoxby, Caroline; Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...

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