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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … improvements in consumer final goods, changes in designs, and other forms of technological creativity. The results indicate that …'s creativity in terms of a “gender difference” rather than a “gender gap” might yield useful analytical insights. A general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964884
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
patent) and creativity (fraction of superstar innovators, the likelihood of a very high number of citations, and generality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018152
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034169
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Robust Benchmark Design
Duffie, Darrell - 2014
Recent scandals over the manipulation of LIBOR, foreign exchange benchmarks, and other financial benchmarks have spurred policy discussions over their appropriate design. We characterize the optimal fixing of a benchmark as an estimator of a market value or reference rate. The fixing data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046173
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The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation : Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards
Ito, Koichiro - 2014
This paper analyzes "attribute-based regulations," in which regulatory compliance depends upon some secondary attribute that is not the intended target of the regulation. For example, in many countries fuel-economy standards mandate that vehicles have a certain fuel economy, but heavier or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047020
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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these two processes. Firms in the North race to bring out the next generation of a set of technology-intensive products. Each product potentially can be improved a countably infinite...
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Surviving the U.S. Import Market : The Role of Product Differentiation
Besedes, Tibor; Prusa, Thomas J. - 2021
We examine the extent that product differentiation affects the duration of US import trade relationships. Applying nonparametric and semiparametric techniques to highly disaggregated product-level data we estimate that the hazard rate is at least 18 percent higher for homogenous goods than for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240568
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Keeping it Fresh : Strategic Product Redesigns and Welfare
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2014
Product redesigns happen across virtually all types of products. While there is substantial evidence that new varieties of goods increase welfare, there is little evidence on the effect of product redesigns. We develop a model of redesign and exit decisions in a dynamic oligopoly model (a la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064071
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Policies for Green Design
Fullerton, Don; Wu, Wenbo - 2022
We analyze alternative policies such as a disposal content fee, a subsidy for recyclable designs, unit pricing of household disposal, a deposit-refund system, and a manufacturer `take-back' requirement. In order to identify the problem being addressed, we build a simple general equilibrium model...
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Entry, Pricing and Product Design in an Initially Monopolized Market
Davis, Steven J.; Murphy, Kevin M.; Topel, Robert H. - 2021
We analyze entry, pricing and product design in a model with differentiated products. Under plausible conditions, entry into an initially monopolized market leads to higher prices for some, possibly all, consumers. Entry can induce a misallocation of goods to consumers, segment the market in a...
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