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Patents to products : product innovation and firm dynamics

Argente, David; Baslandze, Salomé; Hanley, Douglas; … - 2020

We study the relationship between patents and actual product innovation in the market, and how this relationship varies with firms' market share. We use textual analysis to create a new data set that links patents to products of firms in the consumer goods sector. We find that patent filings are...

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Measuring productivity dispersion

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2017

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …

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In-house R&D, technology transfer, and firms' performance

Doan Ha Thi Thanh; Long Quang Trinh - 2023

This study examines the individual and joint impact of technology transfer and in-house R&D on firms' productivity and … margin) and export share (the intensive margin) are positive and significant. In terms of productivity, our result suggests … the presence of vertical spillover. Technology transfer along the supply chain is associated with higher productivity- the …

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The U.S. business cycle, 1867-1995: dynamic factor analysis vs. reconstructed national accounts

Ritschl, Albrecht; Sarferaz, Samad; Uebele, Martin - 2008

This paper presents insights on U.S. business cycle volatility since 1867 de- rived from diffusion indices. We employ a Bayesian dynamic factor model to obtain aggregate and sectoral economic activity indices. We find a remarkable increase in volatility across World War I, which is reversed...

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Real origins of the Great Depression : monopolistic competition, union power, and the American business cycle in the 1920s

Ebell, Monique (contributor); Ritschl, Albrecht (contributor) - 2007

Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as the slide into the Great Depression after...

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Crisis? What crisis? Currency vs. banking in the Financial Crisis of 1931

Ritschl, Albrecht; Sarferaz, Samad - 2010

This paper examines the role of currency and banking in the German financial crisis of 1931 for both Germany and the U.S. We specify a structural dynamic factor model to identify financial and monetary factors separately for each of the two economies. We find that monetary transmission through...

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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....

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The New Deal and modern memory : 2010 presidential address

Shughart, William F. - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 3, pp. 515-542

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Fifty years of compositional changes in US out-migration, 1908 - 1957

Biavaschi, Costanza - 2013

Immigration authorities have seldom collected data on the out-migration of the foreign-born. As a consequence, several indirect approaches have been proposed to measure and study out-migration. This paper adds to the literature by using official statistics that directly identify the...

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Private debt overhang and the government spending multiplier : evidence for the United States

Bernardini, Marco; Peersman, Gert - 2015

Using state-dependent local projection methods and historical U.S. data, we find that government spending multipliers are considerably larger in periods of private debt overhang. In particular, we find significant crowding-out of personal consumption and investment in low-debt states, resulting...

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