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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies

Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...

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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2020

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2021

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a … foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative innovation effect …

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2021

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2023

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a …, prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative overall innovation effect. We provide conditions determining the size of the effect …

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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru

Chong, Alberto; Hentschel, Jesko; Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime - 2004

Using panel data for Peru for the period 1994-2000, we find that when households receive two or more services jointly, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided separately. Such an increase appears to be more than...

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...

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Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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