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Healing the Wounds: Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-war Institutional Reforms
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
While its recent history of civil war, chronic poverty and corrupt governance would cause many to dismiss Sierra Leone as a hopeless case, the country's economic and political performance over the last decade has defied expectations. We examine how several factors--including the legacy of war,...
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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects. …
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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
Helpman, Elhanan; Hoffmaister, Alexander W.; Coe, David T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a country's institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830194
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What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?
Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Schumpeterian growth theory has "operationalized" Schumpeter''s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus on...
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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
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Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess; Perla, Jesse; Tonetti, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …
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Organizing Growth
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Garicano, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge through two activities: innovation (discovering new technologies) and exploitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580091
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Social Learning and Coordination in High-Stakes Games: Evidence from Friend or Foe
Waldfogel, Joel; Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; White, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
We analyze the behavior of game-show contestants who play a one-shot game called Friend or Foe. While it is a weakly dominant strategy not to cooperate, almost half the contestants on the show choose to play friend.' Remarkably, the behavior of contestants remains unchanged even when stakes are...
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Market Mechanisms for Policy Decisions: Tools for the European Union
casella, alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
The thesis of this paper is that more transparent, rule-bound and subtle mechanisms for policy coordination will be needed to ensure the success of an enlarged European Union. A common policy is a public good with distributional implications. Economists have developed a large number of plausible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830541
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Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China
Miquel, Gerard Padró i; Qian, Nancy; Xu, Yiqing; Yao, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the...
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