Department of Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Cao, Dan (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-09-12)
      We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more “radical” innovations to replace incumbents. Our model ...

    • Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm 

      Ellison, Sara; Greenbaum, Jeffrey (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-08-31)
      The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods ...

    • Property Taxes Under "Classificiation:" Why Do Firms pay More? 

      Lee, Nai Jia; Wheaton, William (Cambridge, MA: Departent of Economics, massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-06-29)
      This paper examines how communities will behave if they are given the option of taxing the property of commercial establishments (factories, shopping centers, office buildings, etc) at different rates from residential ...