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International Trade and Innovation
Akcigit, Ufuk; Melitz, Marc J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and … innovation. It features the joint selection of firms into innovation and international market participation (in our model, we … for innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794638
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Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth
Bustos, Paula - 2019
The introduction of new technologies in agriculture can foster structural transformation by freeing workers who find occupation in other sectors. The traditional view is that this reallocation of workers towards manufacturing can lead to industrial development. However, when workers moving to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479820
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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor
Arora, Ashish - 2018
of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480704
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Strengthening State Capacity : Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
Aneja, Abhay; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
service delivery and innovation in over 2,800 cities between 1875-1905. Exploiting the gradual expansion of a major civil … effective postal service contributed to innovation and growth during the Gilded Age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172151
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Idea Diffusion and Property Rights
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2020
We study the innovation and diffusion of technology at the industry level. We derive the full dynamic paths of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482238
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An Empirical Examination of Patent Hold-up
Galetovic, Alexander - 2015
A large literature asserts that standard essential patents (SEPs) allow their owners to "hold up" innovation by … innovation in SEP-reliant industries. We find no empirical support for either prediction. Indeed, SEP-reliant industries have the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457576
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Bottlenecks : Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US … stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral distribution of innovation over the last several decades. Because an industry …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322814
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Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning to Estimate the Livelihood Impact of Electricity Access
Ratledge, Nathan; Cadamuro, Gabriel; Cuesta, Brandon de la - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In many regions of the world, sparse data on key economic outcomes inhibits the development, targeting, and evaluation of public policy. We demonstrate how advancements in satellite imagery and machine learning can help ameliorate these data and inference challenges. In the context of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629457
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Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs
Huang, Yue; Hsiang, Solomon; González-Navarro, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The rigorous evaluation of anti-poverty programs is key to the fight against global poverty. Traditional approaches rely heavily on repeated in-person field surveys to measure program effects. However, this is costly, time-consuming, and often logistically challenging. Here we provide the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599395
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Measuring Firm Activity from Outer Space
Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Seidel, André - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...
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