We analyze the process of technological innovation from the perspective of developing countries. Specifically, we explore how developmental and regulatory impediments to the process of resource reallocation and firm renewal limit the ability of developing countries to adopt new technologies....

signal about the fundamental. The rst characteristic implies that the best policy (tax on investment) with commitment is state contingent. The second and third characteristics make the information incomplete. In particular, agents have dierent information sets, and therefore dierent beliefs,...

A legislature has to reach a collective decision in either of two states of nature. In the first state, legislators vote over an ideological issue. In this state, legislators may not vote for the pragmatic (optimal) policy and, instead, confirm voters' ideological bias. In the second state, the...

in both a simple analytic model, where news shocks overcome the ``dynamic inconsistencies" documented in Estrella and Fuhrer (2002), and in a model that incorporates many of the real rigidities common to DSGE models. The paper calls for more thoughtful modeling of how information about...

Using a dynamic factor model, we uncover four main empirical regularities on international comovements in a long-run panel of real and nominal variables. First, the contribution of world comovements to domestic output growth has decreased over the post-WWII period. The contribution of regional...

of reputation building converges to a level strictly between 0 and 1. However, the two limiting cases differ in the number of third party signals invoked.

linear hidden action preferences exhibiting a preference for late resolution of uncertainty. The costly contemplation model (Ergin and Sarver (2008a)), as well as a generalization of the Kreps and Porteus (1978) model that allows for preference for flexibility in the sense of DLR (2001) are also...

and search for a difference in the pattern of environmental quality when technological progress is taken to be endogenous by extending Brock and Taylor (2003). Brock and Taylor define pollution production and abatement explicitly by considering pollution as an output of both production and...

data support the model predictions.

Capacity addition and withdrawal decisions are among the most important strategic decisions made by firms in oligopolistic industries. In this paper, we develop and analyze a fully dynamic model of an oligopolistic industry with lumpy capacity and lumpy investment/disinvestment. We use our model...