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Testing Endogenous Growth in South Korea and Taiwan

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We evaluate the endogenous growth hypothesis using sectoral data for South Korea and Taiwan. Our empirical work relies on a direct measure of the variety of products from each sector which can serve as intermediate inputs or as final goods. We test whether changes in the variety of these inputs,...

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Accounting for Growth With New Inputs

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1992

In this paper we examine how to account for growth when new inputs are being created. In particular, we obtain a decomposition of growth into that due to a higher quantity of existing inputs, and that due to a greater range of inputs. This decomposition is first obtained for a single firm, with...

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Trade and Uneven Growth

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1990

We consider trade between two countries of unequal size, where the creation of new intermediate inputs occurs in both. We assume that the knowledge gained from R&D in one country <i>does not</i> spillover to the other. Under autarky, the larger country would have a higher rate of product creation. When...

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Export Variety and Country Productivity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004

This paper provides evidence on monopolistic competition models with endogenous technology by studying the effects of sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country...

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The Government Patent Register : A New Resource for Measuring U.S. Government-Funded Patenting

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We introduce new historical administrative data identifying U.S. government-funded patents since the early twentieth century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization...

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Magnification of the ‘China Shock’ Through the U.S. Housing Market

Xu, Yuan - 2019

as big as it was. If housing prices had not responded at all to the China shock, then the total employment effect of the … shock, however, so the independent employment effect of the China shock is reduced by about 20-30%, with that remainder …

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US Exports and Employment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …

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New Goods and Index Numbers : U.S. Import Prices

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1991

Researchers constructing index number frequently face the problem of new (or disappearing) goods, for which the price and quantity are not available in some periods. In theory, the correct way to handle a new good is to treat its price before it appears as equal to the reservation price (i.e.,...

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A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Patents and Innovation

Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2018

This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular …, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the disclosure function of … patents, and patents and follow-on innovation. The main results are summarized in fifteen charts …

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Organizing Crisis Innovation : Lessons from World War II

Gross, Daniel P. - 2020

World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting … innovation policy different, how crisis innovation policy approaches may vary, and the limits to generalizing from World War II …

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