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Growth, development, and technological change
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - 2007
structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …
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Government spending composition in a simple model of Schumpeterian growth
Wiederhold, Simon - 2009
This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267225
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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth
Berden, Koen G.; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2001
We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325047
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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs
Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - 2008
We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263536
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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model
Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004
We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273729
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Fueling growth when oil peaks: Directed technological change and the limits to efficiency
André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012
While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous growth model that reconciles the current aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289359
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Innovation and trade with heterogeneous firms
Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - 2009
This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266051
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Incentives for environmental R&D
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011
Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274844
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Regional development in the context of an innovation process
Gust-Bardon, Natalia Irena - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to identify main components and driving forces behind an innovation process in order to … support regions in organising their endogenous innovation process. To that end, we study models of an innovation process and … endogenous innovation process in a region. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309828
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Incentives for environmental R&D
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011
Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285618