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Persistence of innovation : stylised facts and panel data evidence

Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2005

innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …

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Persistence of Innovation : Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - 2008

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"National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia"

Jones, Garett - In: Asian Development Review 28 (2011) 1, pp. 51-71

A recent line of research demonstrates that cognitive skills—intelligence quotient scores, math skills, and the like—have only a modest influence on individual wages, but are strongly correlated with national outcomes. Is this largely due to human capital spillovers? This paper argues that...

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Cognitive skill and technology diffusion: An empirical test

Jones, Garett - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 3, pp. 444-460

Cognitive skills are robustly associated with good national economic performance. How much of this is due to high-skill countries doing a better job of absorbing total factor productivity from the world's technology leader? Following Benhabib and Spiegel (Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005), who...

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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity

Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Firms invest huge amounts into intangible assets. This paper explores to which extent different kinds of intangible assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital,...

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IQ and national productivity

Jones, Garett - Palgrave Macmillan

A recent line of research in economics and psychology hypothesizes that differences in national average intelligence, proxied by IQ tests, are important drivers of national economic outcomes. Cross-country regressions, while showing a robust IQ-growth relationship, cannot fully test this...

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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...

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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: An Extreme Bounds Analysis

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - Econometric Society - 2004

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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity

Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460700

IQ in the Ramsey Model: A Naive Calibration

Jones, Garett - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one-half of the global income distribution can be explained by a single factor: The effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on the private marginal product of labor. Thus, differences in national average IQ...

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