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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...
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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195649
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The World Income Distribution
Acemoglu, Daron; Ventura, Jaume - 2003
leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns … cross-sectional behavior of the world economy is similar to that of existing exogenous growth models: Cross … exhibit conditional convergence as in the Solow-Ramsey model. The dispersion of the world income distribution is determined by …
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Disease and development : the effect of life expectancy on economic growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - 2006
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Disease and development : the effect of life expectancy on economic growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - In: Health and growth, (pp. 77-129). 2009
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Competing engines of growth : innovation and standardization
Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Zilibotti, … - 2010
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Political limits to globalization
Acemoglu, Daron; Yared, Pierre - 2010
"Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to trade is still a political choice, and trade policy can change with shifts in domestic political equilibria. This paper suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to...
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Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 56 (2009) 8, pp. 1043-1058
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Political limits to globalization
Acemoglu, Daron; Yared, Pierre - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 83-88
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Wachstum für alle?
Acemoglu, Daron - In: Chancen des Wachstums : globale Perspektiven für den …, (pp. 111-122). 2008
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