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Healing the Wounds: Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-war Institutional Reforms

Miguel, Edward Andrew; Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

While its recent history of civil war, chronic poverty and corrupt governance would cause many to dismiss Sierra Leone as a hopeless case, the country's economic and political performance over the last decade has defied expectations. We examine how several factors--including the legacy of war,...

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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects. …

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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth

Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...

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What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?

Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

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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Organizing Growth

Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Garicano, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge through two activities: innovation (discovering new technologies) and exploitation …

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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions

Helpman, Elhanan; Hoffmaister, Alexander W.; Coe, David T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a country's institutional …

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Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation

Benhabib, Jess; Perla, Jesse; Tonetti, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …

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Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; García-Jimeno, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development...

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Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

Weinzierl, Matthew C - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper explores how the persistently popular "classical" logic of benefit-based taxation, in which an individual's benefit from public goods is tied to his or her income-earning ability, can be incorporated into modern optimal tax theory. If Lindahl's methods are applied to that view of...

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The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Donations to Higher Education

Brown, Jeffrey Robert; Dimmock, Stephen G.; Weisbenner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Charitable donations are an important revenue source for many institutions of higher education. We explore how donations respond to economic and financial market shocks, accounting for both supply and demand channels through which these shocks operate. In panel data with fixed effects to control...

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