Better, Faster, Stronger: Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization

Better, Faster, Stronger: Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization∗

This paper investigates the effect of improved market access on worldwide innovation. Using exogenous changes in tariffs in firms’ export markets during the 1990s, we find a large effect of tariff cuts on innovation as measured by patent data. These effects are not driven by the deterioration of innovation quality, and the results are robust to controlling for changes in the patent system and t...

Better, Faster, Stronger: Building a Better Dublin Core Generator

Better and Faster Patient Training

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Convergence Rates for Least-Squares Regression

We consider the optimization of a quadratic objective function whose gradients are only accessible through a stochastic oracle that returns the gradient at any given point plus a zero-mean finite variance random error. We present the first algorithm that achieves jointly the optimal prediction error rates for least-squares regression, both in terms of forgetting the initial conditions in O(1/n)...

Trade Liberalization and Employment

This paper reviews both multi-country and country studies on the impact of trade liberalization on growth and employment in developing countries. These studies reveal sharply contrasting effects of trade liberalization on employment, suggesting that country-specifi c and contingent factors are important. In particular, differences in how trade liberalization is implemented are particularly impo...