Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction of new goods whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our framew...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Gancia, Gino, Zilibotti, Fabrizio
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier ScienceDirect 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61359
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491