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Pharmaceutical Innovation and Longevity Growth in 30 Developing and High-income Countries, 2000-2009

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2012

I examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation, as measured by the vintage (world launch year) of prescription drugs …

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Endogenous Product Cycles

Grossman, Gene M. - 1989

We construct a model of the product cycle featuring endogenous innovation and endogenous technology transfer …

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Innovation, Growth, and Dynamic Gains from Trade

Hsu, Wen-Tai - 2019

trade affects the incentives for technological advancement. We construct an innovation-based endogenous growth model of … North-South trade. There are two types of innovation: one by the North to upgrade the general purpose technology (GPT) and … estimates where the effects of GPT-driven innovation are eliminated. The share of dynamic gains from trade is about 78% of the …

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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016

We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...

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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...

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The Personnel Economics of the State

Finan, Frederico - 2015

Governments play a central role in facilitating economic development. Yet while economists have long emphasized the importance of government quality, historically they have paid less attention to the internal workings of the state and the individuals who provide the public services. This paper...

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The International Price System

Gopinath, Gita - 2015

I define and provide empirical evidence for an "International Price System" in global trade employing data for thirty-five developed and developing countries. This price system is characterized by two features. First, the overwhelming share of world trade is invoiced in very few currencies, with...

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The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality since 1900

Cullen, Mark R. - 2015

Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....

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Why Doesn't Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Cole, Harold L. - 2015

What determines the technology that a country adopts? While many factors affect technological adoption, the efficiency of the country's financial system may also play a significant role. To address this question, a dynamic contract model is embedded into a general equilibrium setting with...

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Reserve Requirement Policy over the Business Cycle

Federico, Pablo - 2014

Based on a novel quarterly dataset for 52 countries for the period 1970-2011, we analyze the use and cyclical properties of reserve requirements (RR) as a macroeconomic stabilization tool and whether RR policy substitutes or complements monetary policy. We find that (i) around two thirds of...

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