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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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Does FDI spur innovation, productivity and knowledge sourcing byincumbent firms? Evidence from manufacturing industry in Estonia

Vahter, Priit - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs …

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Innovation and imitation in a model of North-South trade

Borota, Teodora - 2010

analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and …

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Induced automation: Evidence from firm-level patent data

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David; Olsen, Morten; … - 2021

Do higher wages lead to more automation innovation? To answer this question, we first use the frequency of certain … keywords in patent text to create a new measure of automation innovation in machinery. We show that our measure is correlated …-level panel analysis, we find that an increase in low-skill wages leads to more automation innovation with an elasticity between 2 …

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Mind the knowledge gap!: The origins of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2023

In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...

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Venture Capital and Growth of Young High-Tech Firms in the EU: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence

Pantea, Smaranda; Tkacik, Marcel - 2021

innovation and other aspects of firm performance. They suggest that private VC tends to have larger effects than government VC …

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Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics

Boppart, Timo; Staub, Kevin E. - 2012

A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by...

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Inventors and pirates: Creative activity and intellectual property rights

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2001

This paper analyzes a model in which creative activity and the security of intellectual property rights are jointly determined, both depending on the choices made by potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates of the ideas created by others and on the...

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Business networks, production chains, and productivity: A theory of input-output architecture

Oberfield, Ezra - 2011

This paper studies an analytically tractable model of the formation and evolution of chains of production. Over time, entrepreneurs accumulate techniques to produce their good using goods produced by other entrepreneurs and labor as inputs. The value of a technique depends on both the...

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Technological change, financial innovation, and diffusion in banking

Frame, W. Scott; White, Lawrence J. - 2009

This paper discusses the technological change and financial innovation that commercial banking has experienced during … change and financial innovation can improve social welfare. We then survey the literature relating to several specific …

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