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Capital accumulation, learning, and endogenous growth

Oxford Economic Papers, 1999
I develop a growth model with three sectors of production (final goods, intermediate goods, and R&D), each with a different technology using three inputs (labor, capital, and knowledge), and combining elements from three strands of the literature (neoclassical growth, and AK and R&D endogenous growth).
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Organizational Learning and Intellectual Capital

2001
The logic of this paper is straightforward. It starts from the premise that there is now general consensus that, as the millennium approaches, the global economy is increasingly “knowledge-based.” The evidence on this is now voluminous and the arguments are so familiar as to amount almost to dogma.
Keith Newton, Sunder Magun
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Human Capital and E-Learning

2009
Companies are increasingly conscious of the fact that the achieving of their objectives, together with the improvement of their competitive advantages, depends on the appropriate management of the human factor. The dynamism and strong competition that characterize the business world make it increasingly necessary to introduce a system of human ...
M. Eugenia Fabra, Cesar Camison
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Imperfect information, Bayesian learning, and capital accumulation

Journal of Economic Growth, 1996
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BERTOCCHI, Graziella, Y. WANG
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Social Capital and Service Learning

PS: Political Science & Politics, 2000
Trends in the political engagement of America's high school students present a paradox. At the same time that an unprecedented number of opportunities exist for American adolescents to get involved in activities with a political flavor like student governments, model United Nations, model Congress, Young Republicans and Young Democrats, and debate ...
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Learning By Investing: Evidence from Venture Capital [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Uncertainties about technologies and investment opportunities are prevalent for investments in entrepreneurial companies by venture capitalists (VCs), and this study finds that the resolution of these uncertainties, through VCs' learning, is important for their investment decisions. The hypothesis that individual investments are evaluated in isolation,
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Cultural capital and learning progress

International Journal of Educational Research, 1991
Abstract The under-achievement of pupils from lower socio-economic strata is attributed to a lot of factors. At present more and more emphasis is laid on the effects of differences in socialization due to the social environment in which children grow up. These effects relate to functional, expressive as well as instrumental qualifications of children.
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Learning and Capital Account Liberalization

2009
We begin our study of the origins of financial openness with a review of what is known about consequences because we expect that government officials are likely to have first contemplated the consequences before they liberalized or not international financial markets.
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Learning Spaces as Social Capital

2011
The premise of this chapter is that space (and place: which I define here as what people make of the space they inhabit) is an under-acknowledged independent variable in understanding how higher education institutions work. Space in the university takes the form it does as a result of the decisions and actions of its designers, its users, those who ...
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Can Reinforcement Learning Enhance Social Capital?

2020
Social capital captures the positional advantage gained by an individual by being in a social network. A well-known dichotomy defines two types of social capital: bonding capital, which refers to welfare such as trust and norms, and bridging capital, which refers to benefits in terms of influence and power.
He Zhao, Hongyi Su, Yang Chen, Jiamou Liu, Bo Yan, Hong Zheng   +5 more
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