Similar Search Results

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892563

Interindustry R&D Spillovers, Rates of Return, and Production in High-Tech Industries

Nadiri, Mohammed Ishaq - 2010

This paper presents estimates of the productivity and factor bias effects of interindustry Ramp;D spillovers for five high-tech industries. Each industry is distinguished as a separate spillover source. The industries are each affected by Ramp;D spillovers and are themselves spillover sources....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760211

Of Time and Space : Technological Spillovers Among Patents and Unpatented Innovations During Early U.S. Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040530

Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom : U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009

Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel - 2015

We provide novel estimates of the timing, magnitudes, and potential determinants of the start of the last housing boom across American neighborhoods and metropolitan areas (MSAs) using a rich new micro data set containing 23 million housing transactions in 94 metropolitan areas between 1993 and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037690

The Wealth of Cities : Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2021

Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space. This condition implies that research on cities is different from research on countries, and that work on places within countries needs to consider population,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223339

What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998418

The Challenge to U.S. Leadership in High-Technology Industries (Can the United States Maintain its Lead? Should it Try?)

McCulloch, Rachel - 2021

The United States emerged from World War II as the acknowledged global leader in basic science and its industrial application. While U.S. science has been able to maintain that preeminence in most areas, the nation's technological lead has met increasingly formidable challenges from abroad....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227895

Understanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment Exports to the United States

Sawhney, Aparna - 2011

We track US imports of advanced technology wind and solar power-generation equipment from a panel of countries during 1989-2010, and examine the determining factors including sector-specific US FDI outflow, country size, and domestic wind and solar power generation. Differentiating between the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122466

High-Tech Capital Formation and Labor Composition in U.S. Manufacturing Industries : An Exploratory Analysis

Berndt, Ernst R.; Morrison, Catherine J.; Rosenblum, … - 2022

In this paper we report results of an exploratory empirical effort examining relationships between investments in high-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment. Our data cover the two-digit U.S....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310802

International Banking and Cross-Border Effects of Regulation : Lessons from the United States

Berrospide, Jose M. - 2016

Domestic prudential regulation can have unintended effects across borders and may be less effective in an environment where banks operate globally. Using U.S. micro-banking data for the first quarter of 2000 through the third quarter of 2013, this study shows that some regulatory changes indeed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982940