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This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on”superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
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This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
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innovations - innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on … the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted …. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity …
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innovation - in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though …
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innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …
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An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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