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Growth, development, and technological change

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - 2007

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

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Entrepreneurial innovation and sustained long-run growth without weak or strong scale effects

Grossmann, Volker - 2008

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (strong scale effect) or the level of per capita income (weak scale effect), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support for...

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Entrepreneurial innovation and sustained long-run growth without weak or strong scale effects

Grossmann, Volker - 2008

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Government spending composition in a simple model of Schumpeterian growth

Wiederhold, Simon - 2009

This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …

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What Do We Know About Geographical Knowledge Spillovers and Regional Growth? A Survey of the Literature

Döring, Thomas; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2004

Modern (endogenous) growth theory tells us that knowledge spillovers are crucial for the growth of high-income economies. Against this background the paper provides a survey of theoretical and empirical findings highlighting the question of how geographically limited knowledge diffusion can help...

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Non-Scale Growth, Endogenous Comparative Advantages, and Industrialization

Christiaans, Thomas - 2003

This paper develops a two-sector non-scale growth model and investigates the relationship between international trade, growth, and industrialization. It is shown that the counterfactual prediction of new growth theories regarding a positive effect of population growth on the growth rate of per...

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Mitigation Strategies and Costs of Climate Protection: The effects of ETC in the hybrid Model MIND

Lessmann, Kai; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Bauer, Nico - 2005

MIND is a hybrid model incorporating several energy related sectors in an endogenous growth model of the world economy. This model structure allows a better understanding of the linkages between the energy sectors and the macro-economic environment. We perform a sensitivity analysis and...

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On the long-run evolution of technological knowledge

Hakenes, Hendrik; Irmen, Andreas - 2005

This paper revisits the debate about the appropriate differential equation that governs the evolution of knowledge in models of endogenous growth. We argue that the assessment of the appropriateness of an equation of motion should not only be based on its implications for the future, but that it...

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Demand pull and technology push effects in the quality ladder model

Stadler, Manfred - 2000

This paper extends the standard quality ladder model of innovation and quality growth by allowing for heterogeneous … industries. This enables us not only to deal with the Schumpeterian hypothesis about market power and innovation, but also to …

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Endogenous Technological Change under Uncertainty

de Hek, Paul A. - 2002

How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this question, a model of endogenous technological change is used where sustained growth stems from intentional investments in R&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises...

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