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We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
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This paper studies an analytically tractable model of the formation and evolution of chains of production. Over time, entrepreneurs accumulate techniques to produce their good using goods produced by other entrepreneurs and labor as inputs. The value of a technique depends on both the...
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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Schumpeterian growth theory has "operationalized" Schumpeter''s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus on...
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …
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evolution of innovation across time and space and its effect on productivity. We document a substantial rise of international … estimate the causal effect of innovation induced by international spillovers on sectoral output per worker and total factor …
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This paper discusses the technological change and financial innovation that commercial banking has experienced during … change and financial innovation can improve social welfare. We then survey the literature relating to several specific …
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innovation and other aspects of firm performance. They suggest that private VC tends to have larger effects than government VC …
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In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...
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analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and …
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