When innovation policy trumped protectionism: the Reagan years

Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates and Giammario Impullitti

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

Keywords: innovation; protectionism; economic growth; short and long run gains from globalization; foreign technological catching-up; innovation policy; trade policy; competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03-01
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