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Babina, Tania - 2020

The effect of financial crises on innovation is an unsettled and important question for economic growth, but one difficult to answer with modern data. Using a differences-in-differences design surrounding the Great Depression, we document that local distress caused by the Depression led to a...

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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823197

Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017

This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...

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Achieving New Zealand's productivity potential

Conway, Paul - 2017

Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand …’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long …-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand, which is the key reason why average incomes are still below the OECD average …

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Patents to products : product innovation and firm dynamics

Argente, David; Baslandze, Salomé; Hanley, Douglas; … - 2020

We study the relationship between patents and actual product innovation in the market, and how this relationship varies with firms' market share. We use textual analysis to create a new data set that links patents to products of firms in the consumer goods sector. We find that patent filings are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203391

Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333877

Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269463