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

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...

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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly … available information. However, the manager can use her informational advantage to make choices that are not in the best … interest of the principal. As the available public information about the specific technology increases, the trade-off shifts in …

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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Aghion, Philippe - 2017

the value of local information increases (the “localist” view). On the other hand, the need to make tough decisions may …

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Productivity Growth : The Role of Financial Development

Aghion, Philippe - 2010

This paper offers empirical evidence that real exchange rate volatility can have a significant impact on long-term rate of productivity growth, but the effect depends critically on a country%u2019s level of financial development. For countries with relatively low levels of financial development,...

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Volatility and Growth : Credit Constraints and Productivity-Enhancing Investment

Aghion, Philippe; Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Angeletos, … - 2021

We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing investment and thereby volatility and growth. We first develop a simple growth model where firms engage in two types of investment: a short-term one and a long-term productivity-enhancing one. Because it...

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Competition and Innovation : An Inverted U Relationship

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is developed in which competition may increase the incremental profit from innovating; on the other hand, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are...

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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity

Aghion, Philippe; Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2021

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...

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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...

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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on decentralization within firms. We first discuss how the concept of incomplete contracts shapes our views about the organization of decision-making within firms. We then overview the empirical evidence on the determinants of decentralization...

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Subgame Perfect Implementation with Almost Perfect Information and the Hold-Up Problem

Aghion, Philippe - 2009

amounts of asymmetric information. We show that Moore- Repullo mechanisms may not yield (even approximately) truthful … revelation in pure or totally mixed strategies as the amount of asymmetric information goes to zero. Moreover, we argue that a …

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