An analytical solution to the lab-equipment growth model (Rivera-Batiz and Romer,1991) with an exogenous imitation rate …) protection yielding more consumption today, and stronger levels yielding more growth tomorrow. This has already been studied in …

scientific knowledge from innovations in a standard endogenous growth model and finds that stronger protection of intellectual … property rights may discourage innovation. …

introduce a new framework, which combines trade and growth theory into a tractable tool for quantitative research. Our …

Research in development economics reveals that the bulk of cross-country differences in economic growth is attributable … to differences in productivity. By some accounts, productivity contributes to more than 60 percent of countries’ growth … progress, rates of real cost reduction and rates of productivity growth. I find that the effect of financial development on …

Research in development economics reveals that the bulk of cross-country differences in economic growth is attributable … to differences in productivity. By some accounts, productivity contributes to more than 60 percent of countries’ growth … progress, rates of real cost reduction and rates of productivity growth. I find that the effect of financial development on …

innovations as engine of growth? In a panel of industrial sectors across a large cross section of countries, I find that while …

This paper presents a novel empirical study of innovation practices of U.S. companies and their relation to … productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … outputs of innovation activities into four latent unobserved innovation modes or practices for OECD countries using Community …