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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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Advances and challenges in innovation studies
Castellacci, Fulvio; Grodal, Stine; Mendonca, Sandro; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764696
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859538
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From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628324
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821933
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; bloom, nicholas; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641727
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Innovation, reallocation and growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745637
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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014
research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions … between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they discuss factors that help sustain these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930297
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Defence firms facing liberalization: innovation and export in an agent-based model of the defence industry
Blom, Martin; Castellacci, Fulvio; Fevolden, Arne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
defence firms will progressively become more efficient, less dependent on public procurement and innovation policy support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401070
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The internationalization of firms in the service industries: channels, determinants and sectoral patterns
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper presents the results of a new survey on the international activities of Norwegian enterprises in the service industries. The survey focuses on three main internationalization channels: international sales, international cooperation and R&D outsourcing. The empirical analysis studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693544