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Economic growth, innovation, cultural diversity : what are we all talking about? ; a critical survey of the state-of-the-art
Maignan, Carole (ed.); Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. (ed.);  … - 2003
This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural …
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Child labor and resistance to change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003
We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591883
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Models of growth and firm heterogeneity
Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008667052
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New goods and the size distribution of firms
Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan (contributor) - 2007
This paper describes a simple model of aggregate and firm growth based on the introduction of new goods. An incumbent firm can combine labor with blueprints for goods it already produces to develop new blueprints. Every worker in the economy is also a potential entrepreneur who can design a new...
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Dynamic urn-ball discovery
Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872542
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The ICT revolution : opportunities and risks for the Mezzogiorno
Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Pinelli, Dino - 2003
The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...
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