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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226119
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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters
Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …
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What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?
Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Schumpeterian growth theory has "operationalized" Schumpeter''s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951386
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Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess; Perla, Jesse; Tonetti, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …
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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
Helpman, Elhanan; Hoffmaister, Alexander W.; Coe, David T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The empirical analysis in "International R&D Spillovers" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
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Organizing Growth
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Garicano, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge through two activities: innovation (discovering new technologies) and exploitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580091
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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821771
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Capital and Wages
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512044