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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2013

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

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Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …

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Public Sector Pay and Corruption : Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier - 2011

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...

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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Charlot, Olivier - 2013

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector

Charlot, Olivier - 2012

We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies

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