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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005
Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134417
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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?
Mare, Dave - EconWPA - 2004
Endogenous growth theory is one of the mainstream economics approaches to modelling economic growth. This paper provides a non-technical overview of some key strands of the endogenous growth theory (EGT) literature, providing references to key articles and texts. The intended audience is policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118696
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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?
Maré, David C. - EconWPA - 2005
Endogenous growth theory is one of the mainstream economics approaches to modelling economic growth. This paper provides a non-technical overview of some key strands of the endogenous growth theory (EGT) literature, providing references to key articles and texts. The intended audience is policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118754
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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004
issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118819
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Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box
David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. Earlier studies frequently report contradictory estimates of the response of company...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126006
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
The Washington Consensus suffers from fundamental inadequacies, and that a more comprehensive framework of the economic process is needed to guide the formulation of country-specific development strategies. The following five propositions summarise the set of interrelated arguments made in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556001
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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth
Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134434
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
The Washington Consensus suffers from fundamental inadequacies, and that a more comprehensive framework of the economic process is needed to guide the formulation of country-specific development strategies. The following five propositions summarise the set of interrelated arguments made in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118852
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Ideas for Growth?
Maré, David. C. - EconWPA - 2004
There is much talk of the knowledge economy, and the central role of ideas and knowledge in generating economic growth. This paper provides a brief review of the economic literature on how skills/ knowledge/ ideas might contribute to higher output or higher rates of growth. Ideas are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118849
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A Theory of Technology Diffusion
Mukoyama, Toshihiko - EconWPA - 2003
What determines the speed of the technology diffusion? What are the consequences of diffusion? This paper presents a model to address these questions. Skilled machine-users adopt a new technology first, while unskilled users wait until machines become more reliable and accessible. The quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126129