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Agglomeration and the Location of Innovative Activity

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Only a few years ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalization would render the demise of the region as a meaningful unit of economic analysis. Yet the obsession of policy-makers around the globe to 'create the next Silicon Valley' reveals the increased importance of geographic...

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Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition

Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Whether diversity or specialization of economic activity better promotes technological change and subsequent economic growth has been the subject of a heated debate in the economics literature. The purpose of this paper is to consider the effect of the composition of economic activity on...

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Das Human Kapital

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

financially support public education that would sustain their profit rates and would improve their economic well being, although …

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Education, Democracy and Growth

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

education. Public education is favourable for growth because it increases the level of human capital and at the same time it … more political support for education; increased political rights are good for growth and also imply a more equal income …

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Education, Income Distribution, and Growth: The Local Connection

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of … inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth … richer communities; thus average academic performance and income growth both fall. Yet it may still be possible for education …

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Convergence Empirics Across Economies with (Some) Capital Mobility

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper reinterprets a simple model of growth and fluctuations across many economies to allow for the explicit characterization of the dynamically-evolving cross-economy distribution of income. Such a framework provides a more natural, revealing study of the convergence hypothesis. The data...

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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …

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The Growth of Firms in Theory and in Practice

Geroski, Paul A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper is a reflective survey of past and recent econometric work on the growth of firms. Most of this work suggests that firm size follows a random walk; i.e. that corporate growth rates are random. The survey documents this, and shows what a strong result this is by contrasting it with...

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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a flexible one (law set after observing current technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at...

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A Time to Sow and a Time to Reap: Growth Based on General Purpose Technologies

Helpman, Elhanan; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We develop a model of growth driven by successive improvements in `General Purpose Technologies' (GPTs), such as the steam engine, electricity, or micro-electronics. Each new generation of GPTs prompts investments in complementary inputs and impacts the economy after enough such compatible...

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