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Catch-Up and Leapfrog between the USA and Japan

Cameron, Gavin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1998

The growth process for a technological leader is different from that of a follower. While followers can grow through imitation and capital deepening, a leader must undertake original research. This suggests that as the gap between the leader and the follower narrows, the follower must undertake...

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Human Capital, Investment and Innovation: What Are the Connections?

Nickell, S.; Nicolitsas, D. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

Fingold and Soskice (1988) argue that Britain is trapped in a "low-skills" equilibrium. In Redding (1996), this notion is formalized in a dynamic model which relies on strategic complementarities between firms' investments in R&D and workers' investments in human capital. In this paper, we...

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Science, Technology, Innovation and IP in India - New Directions and Prospects

Greenhalgh, Christine - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

property, innovation and diffusion in emerging countries. It applies this literature to the Indian case. India is a … third section the focus turns to recent science, technology and innovation policy in India. A study of the country …'s potential for innovation by the World Bank in 2007 argued that India must proceed on two fronts. In addition to considering how …

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ABC, 123: Can you text me now? The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes

Ksoll, Christopher; Aker, Jenny C.; Lybbert, Travis J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class. Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...

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Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa

Jedwab, Remi; Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

What is the impact of modern transportation technology on long-run economic change in poor countries with high trade costs? Rail construction in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa provides a natural experiment: 90% of African rail-road lines were built before independence, in a context where...

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Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa

Fafchamps, Marcel; Aker, Jenny C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and reduced consumer prices for certain commodities. There...

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The Two Faces of R&D and Human Capital: Evidence from Western European Regions

Vogel, Johanna - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

productivity growth both directly, reflecting own innovation, and indirectly, reflecting imitation of frontier technology. Further …

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Opening Access to Research

Armstrong, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Traditionally, the scholarly journal market operates so that research institutions are charged high prices and the wider public is often excluded altogether, while authors can usually publish for free and commercial publishers enjoy high profits. Two forms of open access regulation can...

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The Post 1990 Brazilian Trade Liberalization and the Performance of Large Manufacturing Firms: Productivity, Market Share Profits

Hay, D. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1998

The paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization on the total factor productivity, market share and profits of a sample of 349 large manufacturing firms. A panel data production function analysis.

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Does Aggregate Profitability Really Matter?

Glyn, A - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

The impact of profitability on capital accumulation, neglected in conventional accounts, is confirmed by a cross sectional analysis of the post-war experience of manufacturing in OECD economies and this is consistent with a body of time-series and firm level studies.

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