. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

'virtuous circle'. between innovation inputs, new products and export success, during downswings most of the positive … relationships between innovation and international performance. While periods of upswing are characterised by a well documented … diversity of technological change allows to disentangle the specificities and effects of innovation inputs and outputs, and of …

We study the gains from trade in an economy with oligopolistic competition, firm heterogeneity, and innovation … costs reduces markups on domestic sales but increases markups on export sales, as firms do not pass the entire reduction in … incomplete pass-through of trade costs to export markups are strong enough to compensate for the increase in competition on …

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …

concentration and firm size. These determine the scale and the efficiency of R&D operations and the (average) rate of innovation. If …