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Product Quality and Technological Change
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Technological Change and Agricultural Development
… the forces shape the rate and direction of technological progress is central to confronting key challenges facing the world today. Yet there is little systematic evidence on the factors that determine the evolving patterns of invention across applications, or the impact of these patterns on …
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Profit incentives and technological change
… pharmaceutical innovation. Focusing on exogenous changes driven by U.S. demographic trends, we find a large effect of potential market size on the entry of non-generic drugs and new molecular entities. These effects are generally robust to controlling for a variety of supply-side factors and …
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Technological change and health care delivery
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1996.
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Macro Economics Essays on Technological Change
… with the period of accelerating skill-biased technological change. A decomposition of the divergence rate indicates three channels underlying the divergence: (1) an ever-widening wage gap between college graduates and high school graduates, (2) an increasing within-education group wage …
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Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and inequality
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Essays on technological change and innovation games
… is to provide a theory of innovation and technological change incorporating the following aspects; (i) the impact of the existence of substitutes and complements on the innovation incentives in presence of technological externalities, in a Cournot Nash game theoretic framework. Process …
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The Role of Technological Change in Economic Theory
<p>This thesis asks whether or not technological change needs to be explained by economic theory. The current academic literature is limited in providing theoretical account of the process of technological change. This thesis analyzes the economic theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, the neoclassical …
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Optimal Competitive Pricing and Entry Under Technological Change
… the potential competitor's entry timing, and technological change. Two research questions are addressed: (1) how does technological change influence both firms' decisions? and (2) how will both firms' decisions affect each other?
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Shipbuilding, markets, and technological change in East Boston
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1995.
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Endogenous Technological Change in Strategies for Mitigating Climate Change
… induzierten technischen Fortschritts (induced technological change, ITC) auf die Kosten von Klimaschutz. Ein deutliches politisches Signal ist Vorraussetzung dafür, zusätzlichen technologischen Fortschritt auszulösen. Die Literatur zu internationalen Umweltabkommen zeigt jedoch , dass die …
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Conceptualizing technological change: technology transfer in the green revolution
Technological change, and technology transfer as an aspect of this process, is examined by providing a comparative assessment of models of this phenomenon from economics, history, sociology, and neo-Schumpeterian-evolutionary studies. The Green Revolution, which is used as the empirical basis for …
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Business Cycle Models with Embodied Technological Change and Poisson Shocks
… an Endogenous Business Cycle model with embodied technological change. Households take an optimal decision about their spending for consumption and financing of R&D. The probability of a technology invention occurring is an increasing function of aggregate R&D expenditure in the whole …
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Envisioning innovation : the communication of technological change through graphic representation
Graphic depiction is an established method for academics to present concepts about theories of innovation. These expressions have been adopted by policy-makers, the media and businesses. However, there has been little research on the extent of their usage or effectiveness ex-academia. In addition, …
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Industrial structure and technological change in the nuclear power industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992.
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Surviving radical technological change : an empirical study of the typesetter industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Analysis of technological change and relief representation in U.S.G.S. topographic maps
… and the maps themselves have undergone many changes due mainly to technological advances in mapping methods. The use of data collected from historic U.S.G.S. topographic maps in modem day applications necessitates a general knowledge of the potentials and limitations of these data. This study …
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Mesauring The Effect Of Technological Change In Health Care Cost And Expenditure
… <p>Background and objectives:</p> <p>Technological change has a major role in driving up health care cost and expenditure. Yet we are not fully able to know the extent to which technological change affects cost and expenditure and the way new technologies enter the cost or expenditure …
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Exhaustible resources and technological change in the United States agriculture, 1940-1969
Technological progress has played an important role in American agriculture since the beginning of World War II. The rapid rate of growth of population and industrialization in the U.S. has to be met by a rapid rate of growth of food and fiber. Failure to achieve rapid growth in the agricultural …
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