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Novelty and the bounds of unknowledge in economics

Witt, Ulrich - 2007

The emergence of novelty is a driving agent for economic change. New technologies, new products and services, new institutional arrangements, to mention a few examples, are the backbone of development and growth. Important though it is, the emergence of novelty is not well understood. What seems...

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Big patents, small secrets: how firms protect inventions when R&D outcome is heterogeneous

Mosel, Malte - 2011

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big secrets: managing intellectual property', Anton and Yao (2004) call this traditional view into question by finding that firms keep their most important innovations secret. This...

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Technology and the economy

Dosi, Giovanni; Orsenigo, Luigi; Sylos Labini, Mauro - 2002

discusses some of the interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics …

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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...

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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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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...

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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: Evidence from the auto industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - 2012

innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Qualification-mismatch and long-term unemployment in a growth-matching model

Birk, Angela - 2001

and with endogenously determined long-term unemployed resulting from skill-depreciation. For innovation economies …

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Pollution-Reducing and Resource-Saving Technological Progress

Nelissen, Dagmar; Requate, Till - 2004

In this paper we survey the theoretical literature on both pollution-reducing and resource-saving technological progress. The literature can be divided into two strands. One strand deals with microeconomic models which investigate incentives to adopt and to develop environmentally more friendly...

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