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inventions earn at home and abroad. Patents affect the return to invention. We relate the decision to patent an invention … internationally to the cost of patenting in a country and to the expected value of patent protection in that country. We can thus … innovation at home. For example, about half of U.S. productivity growth derives form foreign technology yet U.S. inventors earn …
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This paper analyses several theoretical perspectives on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and 'productivity growth', interpreted as growth in total factor productivity (TFP). We begin with general equilibrium models. An open economy version of Solow's famous (1956)...
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performance is identified in the insufficient expenditure on research and development, which caused innovation to slow down …
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A model is presented based on recent theories of economic growth that treat commercially oriented innovation efforts as …
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I propose a Schumpeterian analysis of the growth and welfare effects of a deficit-financed cut of the tax rate on distributed dividends. I find that income per capita growth initially accelerates and then decelerates, eventually converging to a long-run value lower than the starting one....
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This paper studies the effects of stock market valuation on research investment, the rate of innovation and welfare. In … and raise the economy-wide investment in Ramp;D and the rate of innovation. If the decentralized equilibrium rate of … innovation is inefficiently low, then such episodes may lead to an increase in aggregate welfare even if the higher valuation is …
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We develop and estimate a model of technological innovation and its contribution to growth at home and abroad …
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I use the aggregate behavior of three indicators of technology (employment of research and scientists and enginerrs, patented inventions, and total factor productivity) to identify a model of endogenous technological change. In the United States and several other developed countries, research...
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