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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828554803321

Autore

Valderrama Laura

Titolo

Political Risk Aversion / / Laura Valderrama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-9108-7

1-4527-0970-X

1-282-84403-2

1-4518-7341-7

9786612844034

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

26 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

338.04;338.0409

Soggetti

Uncertainty

Rational expectations (Economic theory)

Labor

Industries: Information Technololgy

Production and Operations Management

Inventions

Technological Change: Choices and Consequences

Diffusion Processes

Innovation

Research and Development

Technological Change

Intellectual Property Rights: General

Macroeconomics: Production

Geographic Labor Mobility

Immigrant Workers

Information technology industries

Technology

general issues

Macroeconomics

Inventions & inventors

Labour

income economics

Emerging technologies

Productivity

Technological innovation

Labor mobility

Industrial productivity



Technological innovations

China, People's Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Basic Model -- A. Economic Environment -- B. Technology Choice -- C. Aggregate Uncertainty -- III. Institutional Reform -- A. Outside Ownership -- B. Endogenizing Ownership -- C. Dominated Employee Ownership -- IV. Efficieny, Innovation, and Labor Mobility -- A. Partnership Efficiency -- 1. Technological and Institutional Efficiency -- B. Institutional Efficiency -- 2. Endogeneous ownership -- V. Discussion -- A. How does the model fit the facts? -- B. Foundations of Individual Uncertainty -- C. Heterogeneous Investors -- VI. Related Literature -- VII. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Footnotes.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper studies the effect of individual uncertainty on collective decision-making to implement innovation. We show how individual uncertainty creates a bias for the status quo even under irreversible voting decisions, in contrast with Fernandez and Rodrik (1991). Blocking innovation is rooted in the aversion to the potential loss of political clout in future voting decisions. Thus, risk neutral individuals exhibit what we call political risk aversion. Yet individual uncertainty is not all bad news as it may open the door to institutional reform. We endogenize institutional reform and show a non-monotonic relationship between institutional efficiency and the size of innovation.