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a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …
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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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Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...
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This paper endogenizes the interplay between innovation by a regulated firm and regulatory delay. When product … innovation costs fall over time, an extra day of regulatory delay increases time to introduction by more than a day. In the … signaling model, the firm therefore times its innovation to communicate its private information about the marginal cost of delay …
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monotonically increasing in either the reliability of the communication network or the productivity of innovation. …
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There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an `innovation shortfall …,` usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (RD) compared with some high-innovation countries … problems that impede accumulation of all kinds of capital. When does a country suffer from an innovation shortfall above and …
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foster cooperation in sectors where the economy already shows comparative advantage. In regard to innovation, general … policies that aim to increase innovation across the board are likely to be inferior to policies that take a more selective … approach by trying to induce the development of innovation clusters in areas of comparative advantage. The paper concludes with …
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Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...
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Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs …
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I examine the effects of FCC regulation on the innovation and introduction of advanced telecommunications services in … the U.S. An interim of lighter regulation provides an experiment to test the regulatory regime''s impact on innovation …. The econometric model comprises an arrival process (for service innovation) followed by a duration process (for regulatory …
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