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Culture, Politics and Innovation: Evidence from the Creameries

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

separator and the cooperative creamery. It asks whether variables identified as important for innovation and growth by cross …

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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway

Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical … survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than 10 employees located in the five largest Norwegian city …

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Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment

Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …

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EU Trade Barriers in the Agri-food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence

Cadot, Olivier; Gallezot, Jacques; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into highly protected sectors, endogenously generating vested interests in the maintenance of protection. We combine data on the EU’s trade protection for food and agricultural...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …

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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Do Oil Price Increases Cause Higher Food Prices?

Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation have been quite modest even after the change in U.S. biofuel policies in 2006. In contrast, increases in the real prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice received by U.S. farmers...

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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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Lobbying and Agricultural Trade Policy in the United States

Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

losses from distortionary policy in agriculture. We show that the puzzle can be resolved by extending the model to allow …

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