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Recent technological changes in many industries have generated numerous complementary technologies. A key implication of complementary technologies is that the demand for related services has tended to change both qualitatively and quantitatively. While the economics literature has examined...
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Designing around patents is prevalent but not often appreciated as a means by which patents promote economic development through competition. We provide a novel detailed empirical study of the extent and timing of designing around patent claims. We study the filing rate of incandescent...
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our firm-level markup estimates. We document increasing markups in the overall economy throughout the first fifteen years …-to-expenditure ratio, with only a small role for changes in the technology parameters. Two decompositions illustrate that the aggregate … sectors with high markups increase their market share, which raises the aggregate markup, but this is dominated by a negative …
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finds that TFP’s correlation with inputs has fallen and that the main reason for this decline is that technology shocks … with more persistent technology shocks since the mid-1980s, causing firms to do less adjustment along the intensive margin …
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We study the effects of technology shocks on labor market dynamics. We provide evidence that a positive technology … and price rigidities can be more successful. On this ground, we argue that to explain the effects of technology shocks on …
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metropolitan area and country. A general equilibrium model demonstrates that an aggregate positive technology shock increases stock …
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news shocks. Thereby, the correlation coefficient between news shocks of a short-run identification scheme and technology …
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anticipated technology shocks are an important source of business cycle volatility; the second finds anticipated technology shocks … relative price of investment. With cointegrated neutral and investment-specific technology, anticipated shocks to the common …
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inestigates the sources of productivity fluctuations that are commonly interpreted s technology shocks. I estimate different types … of technology shocks from structural vector autoregressions and reassess the empirical performance of the standard model … based on second moments that are conditional on technology and nontechnology (preference) shocks. Most prominently, the …
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The sticky-price theory has proved fairly successful in explaining the dynamic effects of technology shocks on … claim victory: it fails to account for the observed wage dynamics following technology shocks unless one is willing to … research suggests, provides a better account for the macroeconomic effects of technology shocks on the labor market …
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