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Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons have been identified for this slowdown, including lack of policy focus, unsupportive external environment, etc. Given the importance of the manufacturing sector and its...
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Manufacturing firms increasingly focus on services. This trend is evident in their composition of input, in-house production and seemingly also in total sale. Firms' services intensity may affect their productivity, and thereby competitiveness abroad. Services are also instrumental in connecting...
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greatest explosion of financial innovation the world had ever seen. Financial fragility grew until the economy collapsed into … the global financial crisis. At the same time, we saw that much (or even most) of the financial innovation was directed … attention to increasing funding of the innovation process. For that reason, we will look not only to Minsky's ideas on the …
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government provide incentives for innovation in a fiscally sustainable way? We address this question by examining the Ramsey … problem of finding optimal tax and subsidy schemes in a model in which growth is endogenously sustained by risky innovation …. We characterize the shadow value of growth and entry in the innovation sector. We find that a profit tax is required to …
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California law that make non-compete agreements unenforceable. Consistent with our model of innovation, mobility rates outside of …
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that as firms gain market share, they increasingly rely on nonproductive strategies but reduce their productive, innovation …
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This paper develops a theoretical model of the inequality in wages and salaries associated with differences in years of schooling (educational inequality, for short). Our model assumes that in the long run individual decisions to become more educated equalize the lifetime earnings of more...
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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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Does it matter for domestic investment whether a country's financial system is bank based or stock-market based? This paper posits that financial intermediation affects domestic investment notably by alleviating financing constraints, allowing firms to increase investment in response to...
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This study investigates whether capital-skill complementarity is the explanation for skill-biased technical change. For this to be the case, capital-skill complementarity must exist in the first place and, secondly, all technical change must be embodied in nature, i.e. embedded in new capital...
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