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Quality Ladders

Quality Ladders is an economic growth model in which technological progress is represented as a sequence of discrete improvements in the quality of goods, where firms advance along a ladder of vertically differentiated products through innovation and R&D investments.

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1.4K

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51

Authors

41

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

Variants

Quality Ladder Model

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Publications

31

Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Policy and the Commercialization of National Laboratory Technologies

Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner · The RAND Journal of Economics · 2001 · 210 citations

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Quality Ledders In The Theory Of Growth

Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 1989 · 172 citations

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Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment: a Quality Ladder Model Interpretation

Tor Jakob Klette, Zvi Griliches · The Economic Journal · 2000 · 122 citations

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Quality Ladders in the Theory of Growth

Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman · The Review of Economic Studies · 1989 · 105 citations · Full text

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Innovation Variety and Patent Breadth

Hugo A. Hopenhayn, Matthew Mitchell · The RAND Journal of Economics · 2001 · 105 citations

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Authors

51

  1. VD
    Vincenzo Denicolò

    University of Bologna, Italy

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  2. EH
    Elhanan Helpman

    Princeton University, United States

    2 publications · 277 citations

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  3. PZ
    Piercarlo Zanchettin

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  4. HA
    Hugo A. Hopenhayn

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 137 citations

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  5. VG
    Volker Grossmann

    University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    2 publications · 43 citations

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Institutions

41

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    293 citations

  2. University of Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    72 citations

  3. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    171 citations

  4. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    72 citations

  5. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

  6. University of Minnesota System

    Minneapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    105 citations

  7. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    66 citations

  8. University of Macerata

    Macerata, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

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Venues

  1. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 5 publications · 241 citations

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  2. The Economic Journal

    3 publications · 172 citations

    3

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  3. International Economic Review

    2 publications · 119 citations

    2

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  4. The Review of Economic Studies

    2 publications · 129 citations

    2

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  5. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 2 publications · 61 citations

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