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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Innovation
Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth
From Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, Noah Stoffman: We explore the role of technological innovation as a source of economic growth by constructing direct measures of innovation at the firm level. We combine patent data for US firms from 1926 … Continue reading
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Tagged Amit Seru, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Economic Growth, Innovation, Leonid Kogan, Noah Stoffman, patents
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Public R&D Investments and Private Sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
From Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Danielle Li, and Bhaven Sampat: This paper measures the impact of public R&D investments on innovation by private sector firms. We quantify the returns to grant spending at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhaven Sampat, Danielle Li, Government Spending, Innovation, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Pierre Azoulay, public sector, RD
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
From William Kerr: This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous … Continue reading
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Do Tax Credits Stimulate R&D Spending? The Effect of the R&D Tax Credit in its First Decade
From Nirupama Rao: This paper examines the impact of the R&D tax credit between 1981-1991 using confidential IRS data from corporate tax returns. The key advances on previous work are an instrumental variables strategy based on tax law changes that addresses … Continue reading
MIT’s Heidi Williams Decodes Economics of Gene Sequencing
Here’s an interesting profile of Heidi Williams and her work on innovation in healthcare. HT: Marginal Revolution
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State Incentives for Innovation, Star Scientists and Jobs: Evidence from Biotech
From Enrico Moretti and Dan Wilson: We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Taxes, Dan Wilson, Enrico Moretti, Innovation, Jobs, Local Labor Markets, RD, Taxes
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Innovation and Production in a Global Economy
From Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, and Stephen Yeaple: The process of globalization features increasing international specialization in innovation or production. To assess the welfare implications of this process, we develop a quantitative, multi-country general equilibrium model where firms can serve … Continue reading
Do fixed patent terms distort innovation? Evidence from cancer clinical trials
A new paper from Heidi Williams, Eric Budish, and Benjamin N. Roin: ABSTRACT: Patents award innovators a fixed period of market exclusivity, e.g., 20 years in the United States. Yet, since in many industries firms file patents at the time of discovery … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin N. Roin, Eric Budish, Healthcare, Heidi Williams, Innovation, patents, Productivity
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How Much Do Wages Go Up When Profit Increases by a Dollar?
Given the interest in the rise of robots, shrinking labor shares and the owners of capital, I thought I’d highlight a Van Reenen paper that David Card suggested we read on the link between firm profitability and wages. It looks at at … Continue reading
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Tagged David Card, Innovation, JOHN VAN REENEN, Middle Class, Paul Krugman, Profits, Robots, Wages
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Why Edward Conard of Bain Capital is wrong about Inequality and Capital Income Taxation
Edward Conard, a former Managing Director at Bain Capital, has been creating quite a stir with his new book, Unintended Consequences. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’ve read this article in the NYTimes about it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bain Capital, capital income taxation, Edward Conard, Growth, Innovation, Tax Reform, Taxes
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