evolution of innovation across time and space and its effect on productivity. We document a substantial rise of international … estimate the causal effect of innovation induced by international spillovers on sectoral output per worker and total factor …

Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and … new round of agricultural innovation in Punjab. These are: complexity of the agricultural economy, complementary inputs … such as infrastructure, switching costs (including risks), balancing frontier innovation and adaptation, and the relative …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

technological lead spawn more successful spinouts. Building on these observations, I build a structural model of innovation and firm … dynamics, where firm heterogeneity arises from endogenous decisions of innovation workers to become entrepreneurs and create … affecting employee entrepreneurship for aggregate innovation and growth. …