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Growth, Inequality and Economic Freedom : Evidence from the US States

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

This paper returns to the discussion of how income inequality affects economic growth. The main argument is that economic freedom is likely to affect the association although the relations are theoretically ambiguous. In a panel of 300 observations from five-year periods across the 50 US states,...

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North-South trade, employment and inequality : changing fortunes in a skill-driven world

Wood, Adrian - 1994 - 1. publ.

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New insights on EU-US comparison of corporate R&D

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro - 2010

Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy's competitiveness and growth. The widespread adoption of R&D targets has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of corporate R&D investment trends, drivers and...

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An agent-based model for secular stagnation in the USA: theory and empirical evidence

Borsato, Andrea - 2021

model to analyze the interplay between income distribution, innovation and productivity growth. Results still show that the …

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Non-homothetic preferences and industry directed technical change

Boppart, Timo; Weiss, Franziska - 2013

Sectoral data features (i) changing relative expenditures of different sectors, (ii) non-constancy in relative prices and (iii) long-run trends in relative TFP growth rates across sectors. We provide a tractable theory of industry directed technical change, which is able to reconcile these...

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The United States Response to Emerging Technological Powers

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2019

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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science

Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...

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Exploration and Exploitation in US Technological Change

Carvalho, Vasco M.; Draca, Mirko; Kuhlen, Nikolas - 2021

How do firms and inventors move through knowledge space as they develop their innovations? We propose a method for tracking patterns of exploration and exploitation in patenting behaviour in the US for the period since 1920. Our exploration measure is constructed from the text of patents and...

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Accelerated technological progress : an explanation for wage dispersion and a possible solution to the productivity paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007

occurred simultaneously, is the reduction of the total factor productivity during the emergence of the computerage - the so … called productivity paradox. This contribution offers a simple unified solution to both of these puzzles and explains the … share of individuals who choose a less productive qualification may lead to a transitory slowdown of the productivity growth …

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Flowers of Invention : Patent Protection and Productivity Growth in US Agriculture

Moscona, Jacob - 2021

suggest that the prospect of patent protection spurred technological progress and increased downstream productivity and …

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