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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …

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Technology in Growth

Keely, Louise; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We review the role of R&D in endogenous growth theory, and describe extant empirical research – macro and micro – bearing on R&D as an engine of growth. Taking R&D to be key, while recognizing the significance of economic incentives, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more...

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both .carbon taxes. and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …

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Technological Change, Trade in Intermediates and the Joint Impact on Productivity

Bøler, Esther Ann; Moxnes, Andreas; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on …

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Spain's International Position, 1850-1913

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Spain's financial position during the late 19th and early 20th century has usually been presented as one of persistent …

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The Macroeconomics of Knowledge Management: Internal Hold-Up versus Technological Competition

Thoenig, Mathias; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper investigates the links between the nature of contractual relationships within firms, the strength of information flows spreading between firms and the dynamics of technological competition. At the firm level, we focus on the corporate incentives to design Knowledge Management policies...

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Technological Diversification

Koren, Miklós; Tenreyro, Silvana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Economies at early stages of development are often shaken by abrupt changes in growth rates, whereas in advanced economies growth rates tend to be relatively stable. To explain this pattern, we propose a theory of technological diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties,...

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Assessing the Foreign Control of Production of Technology: The Case of a Small Open Economy

Cincera, Michele; van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

international generation of knowledge for the case of Belgium, using indicators based on EPO and USPTO patent data (1978-2001). We … affiliates abroad. This approach allows improvement of existing indicators of internationalization of technology based on patent … Belgian patent applicants. But the share of foreign inventors to Belgian assigned patents is increasing considerably over time …

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Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a ‘political replacement effect.’ Innovations often erode elites’ incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political...

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Machines as Engines of Growth

Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks … unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is the feedback between industrialization and wages. High wages are incentives to … use machines and industrialize, while industrialization raises wages. The model shows that industrialization and growth …

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