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. Incentives did not reduce performance there either. Comparing individuals with groups we find that team-work facilitates creative …
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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improvements in resource substitutes accelerate resource extraction. Sector-specific innovation activities are tantamount to …
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While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous growth model that reconciles the current aggregate...
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Northern trade liberalization reduces the rate of innovation, increases Northern unemployment, and reduces both Northern and …
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-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …
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causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
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We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …
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We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …’ innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …
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