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Heitger, Bernhard; Schrader, Klaus; Stehn, Jürgen - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1999

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Economic emergence: An evolutionary economic perspective

Foster, John; Metcalfe, J. Stan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 420-432

The standard neoclassical approach to economic theorising excludes, by definition, economic emergence and the related phenomenon of entrepreneurship. We explore how the most economic of human behaviours, entrepreneurship, came to be largely excluded from mainstream economic theory. In contrast,...

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Das Wirtschaftswachstum der Nationen im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert.

Gundlach, Erich - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1998

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Bildungsressourcen, Bildungsinstitutionen und Bildungsqualität: Makroökonomische Relevanz und mikroökonomische Evidenz.

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2004

Nach dem sogenannten PISA-Schock wird insbesondere in Deutschland intensiv diskutiert, wie die Qualität der schulische Ausbildung verbessert werden kann. Dabei herrscht die Überzeugung vor, dass die Qualität der schulischen Ausbildung eine wichtige Determinante des langfristigen...

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Production Technology, Information Technology, and Vertical Integration under Asymmetric Information

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

The paper addresses the effect of technological progress on the frontiers of the firm, building on transaction cost theory and agency theory. The model incorporates four types of costs: production, coordination, management, and transaction costs. The market has lower production costs, but higher...

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Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology

Bessen, James - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 2, pp. 443-469

Using two panels of U.S. manufacturing industries, this paper estimates capital adjustment costs from 1961 to 1996. I find that from 1974-83 adjustment costs rose sharply --they more that doubled from about 3% of output to around 7%. Moreover, this increase is specifically associated with a...

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The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">The Institutional Revolution

Mokyr, Joel; Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 375-381

premodern world and to show why they changed. His argument is that in a Principal-Agent situation, before the Industrial … acts of the agent, hence the “strange” institutions. In a modern world, with a much improved monitoring technology, we can …

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Technological unemployment in industrial countries

Feldmann, Horst - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 5, pp. 1099-1126

Using annual data on 21 industrial countries from the period 1985 to 2009 and a large number of controls, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of technological change on unemployment. As proxy for technological change, it uses the ratio of triadic patent families to population. According...

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Emergence and evolution of new industries: The path-dependent dynamics of knowledge creation. An introduction to the special section

Krafft, Jackie; Lechevalier, Sebastien; Quatraro, Francesco - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 10, pp. 1663-1665

In this introduction, we review the arguments that underpin the rationale for the special section, and provide a structured sequence for the contents of the six selected papers that comprise the section.

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Foreign multinationals and domestic innovation: Intra-industry effects and firm heterogeneity

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Iammarino, Simona - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 3, pp. 596-609

This paper looks at foreign Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) investing in the UK and at their impact on the innovation …-level information the paper develops a direct measure of capital inflows at a three-digit industry level. In order to capture innovation … Innovation Survey (CIS). The results suggest that domestic firms active in sectors with greater investments by MNEs show a …

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