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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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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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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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Technology, Monopoly, and the Decline of the Viatical Settlements Industry

Sood, Neeraj; Alpert, Abby; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The viatical settlement industry provides an opportunity for terminally-ill consumers, typically HIV patients, to exploit a previously untapped source of equity in existing life insurance contracts to finance consumption and medical expenses. The 1996 introduction and dissemination of effecive...

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The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health

Bhattacharya, Jay; Packalen, Mikko - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

an induced innovation externality. This alternative mechanism, by contrast, causes people to devote an inefficiently high … level of self-protection. As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity … epidemic. Obesity is associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that …

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Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Hassan, Tarek A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and cities as...

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Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Bautista, María … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic inequality has detrimental effects on economic growth in general, but also that differences in economic...

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Modeling Inefficient Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Why do inefficient %uF818 non-growth enhancing %uF818 institutions emerge and persist? This paper develops a simple framework to provide some answers to this question. Political institutions determine the allocation of political power, and economic institutions determine the framework for...

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Acemoglu, Daron; Golosov, Mikhail; Yared, Pierre; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. The interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of our theory. We show that a key parameter...

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; bloom, nicholas; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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