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Developments in the Structure of the Australian Financial System

Donovan, Bernadette; Gorajek, Adam - In: RBA Bulletin (2011) June, pp. 29-40

Some countriesâ€™ financial systems have undergone significant changes in response to the global financial crisis. While Australiaâ€™s financial system also experienced a variety of pressures and changes as a result of the crisis, the overall effect was much less severe than in some...

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Responding to Shocks: Australia's Institutions and Policies

McLean, Ian W. - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2010

The current economic crisis has taught another generation of Australians that their economy remains vulnerable to negative external shocks, as it has been since the depression of the early 1840s. So it is unsurprising that shocks and crises figure prominently in the economic history literature,...

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in a North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008), pp. 1-24

This paper develops a model for analyzing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...

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Patent System, Globalization, and Knowledge Economy

Sideri, Sandro; Giannotti, Pantaleo - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2003

Patents for inventions are at the crossroad of law, technology and economics, with the Patent System resting on two fundamental assumptions: one, that technical progress is desirable and that disclosure is preferable to secrecy; two, that a competitive market economy is in the public interest,...

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On Learning, Innovation and Competence Building in Indiaâ€™s SMEs: Challenges Ahead

Das, Keshab; Joseph, K.J. - eSocialSciences - 2011

With a vast and diverse SME sector Indiaâ€™s industrialization owes much to the technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have been made to promote innovativeness in the sector, albeit, following economic reforms, it appears that the SME sector has not been...

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Mayflies and long-distance runners: The effects of new business formation on industry growth

Falck, Oliver - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of new business formation on industry growth. Dynamic panel techniques are used to test two hypotheses. First, does hit-andrun competition secure efficiency in an industry? Second, do innovative startups lead to amplified innovations by diminishing the knowledge...

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Innovation and growth: supply and demand factors in the US expansion

Simonazzi, Annamaria - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2002

of innovation and growth, the paper focuses on both supply (institutional and technological) and demand factors. It is … innovation and growth, this leaves room for exploration and implementation of policies that might reconcile innovation and growth …

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INNOVATION VERSUS INCOME CONVERGENCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. IS THERE A CORRELATION?

Cristina, Jude; Monica, Pop Silaghi - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 72-79

economic growth in the region were not appropriate for a long run growth. Innovation is a key source of competitiveness and a … convergence in terms of GDP and the convergence in terms of innovation for the CEEC. Based on yearly Eurostat data for the period … 1998-2008, we quantify the progress of each of the 10 CEEC both in closing the income gap and the innovation gap. We then …

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KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION - ESSENTIAL FACTORS FOR OVERCOMING THE CURRENT ECONOMIC IMPASSE

Frunza, Ramona - In: CES Working Papers 2(3) (2010) September, pp. 5-16

development; it is about innovation, without which competitiveness is unthinkable. Romania is part of the “catching–up” group of … countries in innovation. In order to assume new responsibilities and to prepare for the competition with other European … analyze the situation of innovation at EUlevel and to see at what chapters our authorities must to work harder to equalize the …

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CONSIDERATIONS ON EUROPEAN POLICY OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION. CASE OF ROMANIA

Lazar, Roxana Elena - In: CES Working Papers 3(2) (2011) June, pp. 268-276

The evolution of the European policy in the field of research, development, innovation reflects the maturity process of …, development, innovation the differences between the European Union Member States have to be reduced, before attempting to catch up …

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