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conclude by offering suggestions for improving future empirical research on this issue …
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The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the …
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from home, and social distancing are disrupting economic activity around the world. As with other major economic shocks … disproportionate reduction in time dedicated to research relative to what comparable men and women without children experience. Both …
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The empirical analysis in "International R&D Spillovers" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
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in which it was marketed anywhere in the world. We use annual data on the utilization of over 1100 cardiovascular drugs …
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major currencies in the reserve holdings of the world's central banks. Significant factors include: size of the home country …
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The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic "natural experiment," outlining a methodology identifying the "citation death tax" -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a...
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We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using … research regardless of trade barriers or research productivity. As long as trade barriers are not too high, faster diffusion … shifts research activity toward the country that does it better. This shift in research activity raises the relative wage …
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reserve holdings of the world's central banks. Significant factors include: size of the home country …rival or surpass the dollar as the world's leading international reserve currency appears to depend on …
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Despite growing empirical evidence of the link between environmental policy and innovation, most economic models of environmental policy treat technology as exogenous. For long-term problems such as climate change, this omission can be significant. In this paper, I modify the DICE model of...
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