Browsing ECO Working Papers by Subject "O41"

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    Title: Firm Dynamics Support the Importance of the Embodied Question  Author(s): GABLER, Alain; LICANDRO, Omar Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on both embodied technical progress and firm dynamics, by formulating an endogenous growth model where selection and imitation play a fundamental role in helping capital good ...
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    Title: International Competition and U.S. R&D Subsidies: A Quantitative Welfare Analysis  Author(s): IMPULLITI, Giammario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The geographical distribution of R&D investment changes dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1970s U.S. firms are the uncontested world leaders in R&D investment in most manufacturing sectors. Later, led by ...
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    Title: International Competition and U.S. R&D Subsidies: A Quantitative Welfare Analysis  Author(s): IMPULLITI, Giammario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The geographical distribution of R&D investment changes dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1970s U.S. firms are the uncontested world leaders in R&D investment in most manufacturing sectors. Later, led by ...
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    Title: International Schumpeterian competition and optimal R&D subsidies  Author(s): IMPULLITI, Giammario Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...
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    Title: International Schumpeterian Competition and Optimal R&D Subsidies  Author(s): IMPULLITI, Giammario Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...
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    Title: Endogenous Growth through Selection and Imitation  Author(s): GABLER, Alain; LICANDRO, Omar Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: A simple dynamic general equilibrium model is set up in which firms face idiosyncratic productivity shocks. Firms whose productivity has fallen too low exit, and entrants try to imitate the best practice of existing ...
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    Title: Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions  Author(s): AREZKI, Rabah; VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We criticise existing empirical results on the detrimental effects of natural resource dependence on the rate of economic growth after controlling for institutional quality, openness and initial income. These results do ...
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    Title: Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse  Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; POELHEKKE, Steven Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth independent of initial income per capita, ...