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Labor Unions, Directed Technical Change and Cross-Country Income Inequality

Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Furukawa, Yuichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study explores the macroeconomics effects of labor unions in a two-country model of directed technical change in which the market size of each country determines the incentives for innovation. We find that an increase in the bargaining power of a wage-oriented union leads to a decrease in...

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Inclusive Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth: Estimates for European Countries

d'Agostino, Giorgio; Scarlato, Margherita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper investigates the theoretical and empirical foundations of the links between inclusive institutions, innovation and economic growth. Its first contribution to the literature is to provide a non-scale R&D-based growth model incorporating negative externalities linked to low...

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Corruption’s and Democracy’s effects on Economic Growth

Zaouali, Amira - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Economists have a long argue that political process such as democracy and corruption are important for economic growth. Our objective in this paper is to demonstrate that one of democracy's indirect posititive effects is its ability to mitigate the negative effect of corruption on economic...

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Terms of Trade Instability, Economic Vulnerability and Economic Growth: The Role Of Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Zaouali, Amira - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Economists have a long argue that institutions and implementation of good governance are important for economic growth. The main objective of this research is to demonstrate that one of positive institutions effects is its ability to mitigate the negative effect of economic vulnerability linked...

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Institutional and General Economic Constraints to Economic Growth: Findings from the Industrial Enterprise Survey

Dashkeev, Vladimir; Freinkman, Lev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In December 2007, the Institute for the Economy in Transition (IET) carried out a survey of Russian industrial enterprises to identify their perceived constraints to successful economic development. Senior managers of enterprises were asked to answer 2 groups of questions and to assess: 1)...

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Science and technology parks and cooperation for innovation: Empirical evidence from Spain

Vásquez-Urriago, Ángela Rocío; Barge-Gil, Andrés; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Science and Technology Parks (STPs) are one of the most important regional innovation policy initiatives. Previous studies show that location in a Park promotes cooperation for innovation but have not investigated if they help to achieve better results from cooperation. We extend previous...

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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...

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Intellectual property rights protection in the presence of exhaustible resources

Hori, Takeo; Yamagami, Hiroaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We construct a research and development (R&D) based endogenous growth model with exhaustible resources and investigate whether protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) can sustain perpetual growth. We show that relatively weak IPR protection is sufficient to sustain perpetual growth when...

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Building an Innovative Economy through Managed Creative Destruction: A Theory with Applications to South Korea

Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper presents a somewhat novel theory of innovation in the economy wide setting. The starting point for this … theory is the creative destruction process at the firm and industry level. However, an extension to an economy wide setting … in which the theory leads is a complex interaction between state policies and market processes that influence the …

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Institutions and the Long-run Impact of Early Development

James, Ang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We study the role of institutional development as a causal mechanism of history affecting current economic performance. Several indicators capturing different dimensions of early development in 1500 AD are used to remove the endogenous component of the variations in institutions. These...

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