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Ten facts on declining business dynamism and lessons from endogenous growth theory
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104042
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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141050
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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557905
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on”superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199194
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Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2010
framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674319
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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692367
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Innovation, reallocation and growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Suomen Pankki - 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/10010698829
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Buy, Keep or Sell: Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas
Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp; Greenwood, Jeremy - Economie d'Avant Garde - 2013
An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862243
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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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Growth through heterogeneous innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Suomen Pankki - 2013
framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818983