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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021
present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237260
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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara - 2014
While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for the Industrial Revolution has typically been assessed as minor. To resolve this puzzling contrast, we differentiate average human capital (literacy) from upper-tail knowledge. As a proxy for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052500
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The March of the Techies : Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James - 2016
Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995986
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Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Industrialization in France
Juhász, Réka; Squicciarini, Mara; Voigtländer, Nico - 2022
We construct a novel plant-level dataset to examine the process of technology adoption during a period of rapid technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new stylized facts that can help explain why major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299493
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Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more "radical" innovations to replace incumbents. Our model provides a tractable framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137600
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114316
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Innovation and Climate Policy
Popp, David - 2012
literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116453
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106293
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A Tale of Two Standards : Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry
Flamm, Kenneth - 2014
date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the … of innovation in product markets, rather than on indirect correlates of innovation (like patents), and by exploiting … product markets, and the rate of technical innovation in optical disc products. The analysis concludes that different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064214
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064941