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Catch-Up and Fall-Back Through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess - 2012
frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …
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Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth
Kogan, Leonid - 2014
We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure uses newly collected data on … our measure suggests that technological innovation accounts for significant medium-run fluctuations in aggregate economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066798
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068131
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The Changing Structure of American Innovation : Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth
Arora, Ashish - 2019
major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869221
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021
Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
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Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly
Darby, Michael R. - 2011
outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary … innovation is not the same innovation freely available but the unchanged generic technology. Growth is concentrated in any …
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The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
Petrin, Amil - 2011
We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131308
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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115686
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Is Poland the Next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco - 2012
We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101075
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Human Capital Investment, Inequality and Economic Growth
Murphy, Kevin M. - 2016
We treat rising inequality is an equilibrium outcome in which human capital investment fails to keep pace with rising demand for skills. Investment affects skill supply and prices on three margins: the type of human capital in which to invest; how much to acquire; and the intensity of use. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001789