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Beyond market failures: The market creating and shaping roles of state investment banks
Mazzucato, Mariana; Penna, Caetano C. R. - 2015
Recent decades witnessed a trend whereby private markets retreated from financing the real economy, while, simultaneously, the real economy itself became increasingly financialized. This trend resulted in public finance becoming more important for investments in capital development, technical...
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The dynamic effects of income tax changes in a world of ideas
Cloyne, James; Martinez, Joseba; Mumtaz, Haroon; … - 2023
Using a narrative identification of US tax changes over the post-WWII period, we show that corporate income tax cuts foster R&D spending and innovation, leading to a persistent increase in aggregate productivity and output. In contrast, changes in the average personal income tax rate have mostly...
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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India's Technological Trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon - 2008
India's emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807633
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Patenting Public-Funded Research for Technology Transfer: A Conceptual-Empirical Synthesis of US Evidence and Lessons for India
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010
The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to...
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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010
In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...
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Impact of Preventive Health Care on Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - 2007
world (US$7, as against US$2,548 in the United States), the government should focus its limited resources towards the health …In this study, the authors have tried to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health … role of preventive health care in boosting the corporate sector's performance and improving the country's economy. Toward …
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
globalization effect on child health, in particular in low- and middle-income countries. One factor that could explain such … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization effect on child health. If e.g. Côte d'Ivoire was a democracy in the 2000-2009 period, this effect would translate …
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
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The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...
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Global development goal setting as a policy tool for global governance: Intended and unintended consequences
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2013
Global development goals have become increasingly used by the United Nations and the international community to promote priority global objectives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent example of such goals, but many others have been set since the 1960s. Despite their...
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