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consumers, and what the growth potential of these goods is. While, all else equal, the North tends to lose more (or gain less …
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consumers, and what the growth potential of these goods is. While, all else equal, the North tends to lose more (or gain less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295303
This paper analyzes the effects of new business formation on industry growth. Dynamic panel techniques are used to test …
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growth with the help of a GMM panel regression including 114 countries. Effects on productivity growth and capital and labor …
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We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly …
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By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers' productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …
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The stability of cyclical growth within the context of a model in Matsuyama (1999) is examined. It is shown that but … cyclical growth is derived. The growth enhancing property of 2-cycles are shown to be retained by any cycle; the results of … simulation exercises carried out are reported to show that for very wide range of parameter values, such cyclical growth paths …
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Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories...
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This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, the … author modifies a standard quality ladder growth model by incorporating possibility of imitation, and rent protection …'s growth rate along the balanced path. He highlights two sources of welfare improvement: elimination of monopoly pricing, and …
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