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Idea Diffusion and Property Rights
Jovanovic, Boyan; Wang, Zhu - 2022
We study the innovation and diffusion of technology at the industry level. We derive the full dynamic paths of an …
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The Diffusion of New Institutions : Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System
Comino, Stefano - 2017
statutes that are more effective at preventing outsiders' entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting. We … strongly restrict entry and price competition. We show that guilds that originated from medieval religious confraternities were … more likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes …
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Competitive Diffusion
Jovanovic, Boyan; MacDonald, Glenn - 2021
The usual explanation for why the producers of a given product use different technologies involves "vintage-capital": A firm understands the frontier technology, but can still prefer an older, less efficient technology in which it has made specific physical and human capital investments. This...
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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2012
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...
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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade
Eaton, Jonathan - 2012
We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755480
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Organizing Growth
Garicano, Luis - 2015
innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge through two activities: innovation (discovering new technologies) and exploitation …
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Close to You? Bias and Precision in Patent-Based Measures of Technological Proximity
Benner, Mary - 2015
Patent data have been widely used in research on technological innovation to characterize firms' locations as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750343
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A Conceptual World : Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is so Different from the Art of All Earlier Centuries
Galenson, David W. - 2020
was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840704
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Innovation, Knowledge Diffusion, and Globalization
Lind, Nelson - 2018
). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …
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Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment
Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018
by the composition and extent of aggregate demand. The direction and speed of innovation is inefficient because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919858