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The study here analyzes, across European countries, the relationship between labour and drivers of technological innovation, also considering the interaction of these variables with the structural indicator of the public debt. The main findings are: the fruitful effect of total public...
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We develop a framework for the analysis of the economic effects of an epidemic that incorporates firm-specific innovation and endogenous entry. Transition dynamics is characterized by two differential equations describing the evolution of the mass of susceptible in the population and the ratio...
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This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and productivity. Using econometric modelling and input-output economics, the analysis examines and measures the extent to which telecommunications has contributed to national and sectoral...
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To shed light on the dynamic effects of antitrust policy on growth and welfare, we develop and estimate the first …&A decisions. The estimated model reveals that: (1) Existing policies generate gains in growth and welfare. (2) Strengthening … growth should receive much higher consideration in the design of antitrust policies …
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A number of market failures have been associated with R&D investments and significant amounts of public money have been spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review some recent microeconomic studies evaluating effects of government sponsored commercial R&D. We...
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-run growth; conversely, limited coverage promotes incremental research that may boost short-term efficiency while dampening the … critical role in determining both the growth and welfare implications of AI, charting a new path for understanding how …
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-run temperatures. We contrast a baseline of global depopulation (the most likely future) with a counterfactual in which the world …
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I use Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from over 300,000 individual students within 44 countries in 2009 and a historical natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of private schooling on student effort. Since nations with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 tend...
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Based on a survey of about 2,500 US resident adults, we show that people who have experienced serious illness or job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or who personally know someone who has, favor a temporary progressive levy or structural progressive tax reform to a greater extent than...
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