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When innovation policy trumped protectionism: the Reagan years

Giammario Impullitti and colleagues show that it was the Reagan administration's innovation policy - not a retreat from globalisation - that promoted US growth....Read more...

Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates and Giammario Impullitti

1 March 2019

CEP discussion paper
Innovation and trade policy in a globalized world

How do import tariffs and R&D subsidies help domestic firms compete globally? How do these policies affect aggregate growth and economic welfare? To answer these questions we build a dynamic general equilibrium growth mo...Read more...

Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates and Giammario Impullitti

14 December 2018

CEP discussion paper
The social origins of inventors

In this paper, we merge three datasets - individual income data, patenting data, and IQ data - to analyze the deterninants of an individual’s probability of inventing. We find that: (i) parental income matters even after...Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Ari Hyytinen and Otto Toivanen

12 December 2017

CEP discussion paper
Tax simplicity and heterogeneous learning

We study the effects of fiscal incentives for self-employment using new French tax data from 1994 to 2012. France serves as a good quasi-laboratory: It has three fiscal regimes - or modes of taxation - for the self-emplo...Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Matthieu Lequien and Stefanie Stantcheva

24 November 2017

CEP discussion paper
Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovat...Read more...

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr

14 May 2013