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Óscar Afonso
Researcher at University of Porto
Publications - 191
Citations - 2036
Óscar Afonso is an academic researcher from University of Porto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Endogenous growth theory & Technological change. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 173 publications receiving 1816 citations. Previous affiliations of Óscar Afonso include University of Beira Interior.
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Maintenance and destruction of r&d leadership
Óscar Afonso,Ana Maria Bandeira +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that leader firms often support R&D activities and economic growth can be independent of the market size in the standard Schumpeterian growth models.
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Growth and wage inequality in a scale‐independent model with r&d and human‐capital accumulation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a dynamic, non-scale general equilibrium model with two human-capital types where Schumpeterian R&D and human capital accumulation are the engines of growth and wage inequality.
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Non-Scale Effects of North-South Trade on Economic Growth
Óscar Afonso,Álvaro Aguiar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Schumpeterian R&D model of North and South economies is presented, where the latter is school intensive while the former is on-the-job-training intensive.
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The Oscar goes to … robots or humans? Competition in a directed technical change model with monetary policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the Directed Technical Change model was extended to consider robotics and the monetary authority, in two sectors, using human labor and robotic labor, in addition to the i...
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The impact of the informal economy on R&D, wage inequality and economic growth
Óscar Afonso,Rui Sarabanda +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the existing research and development (RD) model and show that the share of informal economy (IE) in production affects negatively RD Nordic countries have the lowest share of IE in production, while Mediterranean countries had the highest share.