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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altındağ, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömar; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China

Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017

include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …’s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms’ innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager’s education that has a positive and …

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How reasonable is the reasonable royalty rate?: Damage rules and probabilistic intellectual property rights

Choi, Jay Pil - 2006

This paper investigates how different damage rules in patent infringement cases shape competition when intellectual property rights are probabilistic. I develop a simple model of oligopolistic competition to compare two main liability doctrines that have been used in the US to assess...

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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing...

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Quality Heterogeneity andGlobal Economic Growth

Dinopoulos, Elias; Unel, Bulent - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2009

This paper develops a fully-endogenous, variety-expansion growth model with firm-specific quality heterogeneity, limit pricing, and an endogenous distribution of markups.Trade induces only firms with high-quality products to export, whereas firms with low-quality products serve only the domestic...

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The Interaction Between Technology Adoption and TradeWhen Firms are Heterogeneous

Unel, Bulent - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2010

This paper develops a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms tostudy the interaction between technology adoption and trade in a world of two countriesfacing different technology adoption costs. It shows that a reduction in the technologyadoption cost in one country increases the...

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Financing the capital development of the economy: A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis

Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, Larry Randall - 2015

This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...

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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies

Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...

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Industrialization, exports and the developmental state in Africa: The case for transformation

wa Githinji, Mwangi; Adesida, Olugbenga - 2011

This essay explores the role of the state in promoting exports and industrialization in the quest for transformation of African economies. It does this by exploring the role of trade in African economies followed by a brief look at the East Asian Developmental state. This is followed by an...

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