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Examining US productivity: Knowledge flows from industry and country sources

Koch, William - 2008

a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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Technology's edge: The educational benefits of computer-aided instruction

Barrow, Lisa; Markham, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2007

Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are investing heavily in computerized curriculums as a way to enhance education output, even though there is surprisingly little evidence that they actually improve student achievement. In...

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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function: A note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …

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Regulation, innovation, and the introduction of new telecommunications services

Prieger, James E. - 2000

I examine the effects of FCC regulation on the innovation and introduction of advanced telecommunications services in … the U.S. An interim of lighter regulation provides an experiment to test the regulatory regime''s impact on innovation …. The econometric model comprises an arrival process (for service innovation) followed by a duration process (for regulatory …

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Is tolerance good or bad for growth?

Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - 2010

We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...

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Intellectual Property and Marketing

Philipson, Tomas J.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2007

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Prizes for basic research - Human capital, economic might and the shadow of history

Aizenman, Joshua; Noy, Ilan - 2006

This paper studies the impact of global factors on patterns of basic research across countries and time. We rely on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global economic and historical trends. Specifically, we investigate the degree to which scale or threshold effects...

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Prizes for basic research: Human capital, economic might and the shadow of history

Aizenman, Joshua; Noy, Ilan - 2006

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Into the Allocation Puzzle - A Sectoral Analysis

Reinhardt, Dennis - 2010

This paper assesses whether the allocation puzzle - the tendency for capital to flow to countries with relatively low productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows...

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