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Healthy business? : managerial rducation and management in healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Lemos, Renata; Van … - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower … mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901862
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe; Prantl, Susanne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618282
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Competition, Entry, and the Social Returns to Infrastructure in Transition Economies
Aghion, Philippe; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper presents a simple model for analysing the contribution of investments in physical and institutional infrastructure to the transition process. In addition to the direct cost savings, infrastructure investment generates important indirect effects, or transition impacts. The model shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667044
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Competition, Entry, and the Social Returns to Infrastructure in Transition Economies
Aghion, Philippe; Schankerman, Mark A. - 1999
This paper presents a simple model for analysing the contribution of investments in physical and institutional infrastructure to the transition process. In addition to the direct cost savings, infrastructure investment generates important indirect effects, or transition impacts. The model shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196697
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Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth : Linking Policy Research and Practice in 'Stig Systems'
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
This paper reflects on the relevance of systems - theoretic approaches to the interdependent policy issues relating to the dynamics of science, technology and innovation and their relationship to economic growth. Considering the approach that characterizes much of the current economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708682
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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Innovation, reallocation and growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745637
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Innovation, reallocation and growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148193
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974477
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035706