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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael; list, john; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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Are Knowledge Spillovers International or Intranational in Scope? Microeconometric Evidence from the Japan and the United States
Branstetter, Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
In a number of theoretical models, it has been shown that technological externalities can generate multiple equilibria in the global pattern of specialization and trade, with different consequences for the relative welfare of the trading countries. In such models, temporary government policies...
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
bloom, nicholas; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Roberts, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control … better information flow enabled owners to delegate more decisions to middle managers. Third, it increased the use of …
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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (S&T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the S&T field in which they are working....
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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Endogenous growth models raise fundamental questions about the nature of human creativity, and the sorts of resources, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature of early British industrialization supports the...
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What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
success of Goldin and Katz's framework in accounting for numerous broad labor market trends. The essay also considers areas …
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Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess; Perla, Jesse; Tonetti, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Will fast growing emerging economies sustain rapid growth rates until they "catch-up" to the technology frontier? Are there incentives for some developed countries to free-ride off of innovators and optimally "fallback" relative to the frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of...
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Killing the Golden Goose? The Decline of Science in Corporate R&D
Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Patacconi, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations between 1980 and 2007. We find that publications by...
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New Ideas in Invention
Packalen, Mikko; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
A key decision in research is whether to try out new ideas or build on more established ideas. In this paper, we evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the...
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Cities and Ideas
Packalen, Mikko; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Faster technological progress has long been considered a key potential benefit of agglomeration. Physical proximity to others may help inventors adopt new ideas in their work by increasing awareness about which new ideas exist and by enhancing understanding of the properties and usefulness of...
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