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the many margins through which tax policies can affect innovation, the main driver of economic growth in the long …-run. These margins include the impact of tax policy on i) the quantity and quality of innovation; ii) the geographic mobility of … innovation and inventors across U.S. states and countries; iii) the declining business dynamism in the U.S., firm entry, and …
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How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … when combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation …
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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...
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Innovation is typically a trial-and-error process. While some research paths lead to the innovation sought, others … that leads to an early abandonment of the risky project. We show that different types of firms follow different innovation …
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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
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/10010929532
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 …
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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...
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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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