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Corporate and Product Identity in the Post-National Economy : Rethinking U.S. Trade Laws

Cao, Lan - 2011

The trade laws of the U.S. are replete with references to “domestic industry,” “domestic” corporations, and “domestic” products. U.S. trade laws, like those of other countries in the world trading system, remain rooted in antiquated understandings of “nationality” and “national...

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The Role of Invention in U.S. Metropolitan Productivity

Rothwell, Jonathan T.; Lobo, José; Strumsky, Deborah - 2015

relationship between inventive activity and productivity at the level of U.S. metropolitan economies, using a patents database that … with and Granger causes higher productivity in metropolitan areas. A standard deviation increase in patents predicts a 6 … percent increase in productivity over 10 years. Higher-quality patents enhance the effect. We attempt to identify a cross …

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Three futures for postcrisis banking in the Americas: The financial trilemma and the Wall Street complex

Dymski, Gary A. - 2010

This would seem an opportune moment to reshape banking systems in the Americas. But any effort to rethink and improve banking must acknowledge three major barriers. The first is a crisis of vision: there has been too little consideration of what kind of banking system would work best for...

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Economics, area studies and human development

Ranis, Gustav - 2009

This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if we shift our attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards improvements in human development, especially the much broadened version of that concept. Different areas are shown...

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The startup process

Acs, Zoltán J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 121-132

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and welfare effects. The papers in this special issue are from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in Washington D.C. in 2007. The introduction has...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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The historical fertility transition : a guide for economists

Guinnane, Timothy - 2010

The historical fertility transition is the process by which much of Europe and North America went from high to low fertility in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This transformation is central to recent accounts of long-run economic growth. Prior to the transition, women bore as many...

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The reserve army of labour in the postwar U.S. economy : some stock and flow estimates

Basu, Deepankar - 2012

This paper presents some estimates of the stock of the reserve army of labour, and flows into and out of the reserve army of labour for the postwar U.S. economy. Estimates of stocks are presented for the period 1948 - 2011 at a monthly frequency; 6 month moving average estimates of flows into...

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The economic and environmental impact of the California Environmental Quality Act : [quantitative analysis and case studies]

Philips, Peter R. - 2013

Economy: Comparing California before and after the 1970 passage of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and benchmarking against performance in the other 49 states, this study finds that 1) California per capita GDP, 2) California housing relative to population, 3) California...

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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...

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