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Greenwood, Jeremy; Han, Pengfei; Sanchez, Juan M. - 2017

The relationship between venture capital and growth is examined using an endogenous growth model incorporating dynamic contracts between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. At each stage of financing, venture capitalists evaluate the viability of startups. If viable, venture capitalists...

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Uncertainty, intangible capital, and productivity dynamics

Palombo, Edoardo - 2020

Following an unparalleled rise in uncertainty over the Great Recession, the US economy has been experiencing anaemic productivity growth. This paper offers a quantitative study on the link between uncertainty and low productivity growth. Firstly, using micro level data I show that uncertainty...

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Doubling agricultural growth in Uttar Pradesh : sources and drivers of agricultural growth and policy lessons

Verma, Smriti; Gulati, Ashok; Hussain, Siraj - 2017

golden opportunity to change the face of UP's agriculture and thus the fate of millions that depend on it. UP with a … engaged in agriculture; average holding size was just 0.76 ha with 92 percent of holdings being small and marginal; and 29 …

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Unleashing Bihar's agriculture potentia : sources and drivers of agriculture growth

Hoda, Anwarul; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Gulati, Ashok - 2017

. Agriculture growth was around 4.7 per cent, which was above the national average of 3.6 per cent and in the latest five years, its … performance was even more commendable, with an average annual growth rate of 7.1 per cent. However, agriculture productivity of … in yield augmenting inputs such as fertilisers, certified seeds, tube wells and farm machines. Bihar's agriculture has …

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Transforming agriculture in Odisha : sources and drivers of agriculture growth

Hoda, Anwarul; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Gulati, Ashok - 2017

agriculture. During the five years from 2010-11 to 2014-15, the contribution of agriculture to the state GDP recorded an annual … average growth of a mere 0.9 per cent. This paper studies the composition, sources and potential drivers of agriculture growth …

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Understanding the growth of the middle class in Bolivia

Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2021

that mining and agriculture have a similar though smaller effect. Our results also suggest that both formality and public …

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Food security and productivity impacts of technology adoption in small subsistence farmers in Bolivia

Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015

This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by technological adoption. In this study, we use data from a...

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The effects of startup acquisitions on innovation and economic growth

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Roldan-Blanco, Pau; Schmitz, Tom - 2022 - This version: December 9, 2022

Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an incentive for startup creation and may transfer ideas to more efficient users. On the other hand, incumbents might acquire startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions...

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Neoclassical growth, environment and technological change: the environmental Kuznets curve

Rubio, Santiago J.; García, J. R.; Hueso, J. L. - 2009 - Fourth version: May 2009

The paper investigates socially optimal patterns of economic growth and environmental quality in a neoclassical growth model with endogenous technological progress. In the model, the environmental quality affects positively not only to utility but also to production. However, cleaner...

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The solaria syndrome: social capital in a growing hyper-technological economy

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2010

We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...

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