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In this paper we examine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on international variation in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth rates. In particular, we investigate whether a country's initial distance from technology frontier influences the degree to which a country can benefit from...
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We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by purposeful research and development. In contrast to economies in which growth depends on learning-by-doing spillovers, raising the retirement age fosters economic growth. How...
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Chapter 3 of the book Greece From exit to recovery?, Brookings Institution Press 2014, investigates the relationship between key aspects of the institutional environment, infrastructure, and qualitative aspects of the education system. A literature review is paired with the examination of key...
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …
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This paper investigates the main postulations of the Ramp;D based growth models that innovation is created in the Ramp …;D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of Ramp … for the period 1981-97. The results suggest a positive relationship between per capita GDP and innovation in both OECD and …
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We assess the long-run growth effects of rising longevity and increasing the retirement age when growth is driven by purposeful research and development. In contrast to economies in which growth depends on learning-by-doing spillovers, raising the retirement age fosters economic growth. How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195541
This paper provides first empirical evidence of the joint effects that innovation strategies and human resource … firms and of firms pursuing relatively simple innovation strategies, centered around the acquisition of new machinery …
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This paper investigates the main postulations of the R&D based growth models that innovation is created in the R …&D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of R … the period 1981-97. The results suggest a positive relationship between per capita GDP and innovation in both OECD and non …
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We examine how financial market development affects technological innovation. Using a large data set that includes 32 … development of equity markets and credit markets affects technological innovation. We show that industries that are more dependent … on external finance and that are more high-tech intensive exhibit a disproportionally higher innovation level in …
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The "resource curse" is a potential threat to all countries relying on export income from abundant natural resources such as fossil fuels. The early literature hypothesized that easily accessible natural resources would lead to lack of technological progress. In this article we instead propose...
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