choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

innovation--in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though … patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm growth, entry and exit from the …

innovation—in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though … patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm growth, entry and exit from the …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their … innovate. In addition, political connections relate to a higher rate of survival, as well as growth in employment and revenue …

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth … century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment … innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity and quality of inventive activity and shift …

How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question …", who exploit the patent system to extract rents and thereby hurt innovation. We employ unprecedented access to NPE … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …