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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Innovation and spillovers : evidence from European regions

Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 2000

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a production function of innovation for European regions …

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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015

This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...

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Mind the knowledge gap! : the origins of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2023

In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...

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Ten facts on declining business dynamism and lessons from endogenous growth theory

Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

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Growth and the geography of knowledge

Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

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Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies : evidence from the car market

Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021

This article tests the effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards on the direction of innovation, in … for the years 2000-2016. Our results indicate that standards are a very robust driver inducing clean innovation, whereas … negatively impact dirty innovation. …

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Flow of ideas : economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; Koschnick, Julius - 2022

diffusion and, to some extent, shaped the geography of innovation. …

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What happened to U.S. business dynamism?

Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …

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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

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