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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

exogenous to firms’ export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

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The Global-Local Interplay of MNE and Non-MNE Firms

Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second … how attributes of MNEs and non-MNEs differ, and how these differences affect the productivity and export intensity. It …

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Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization

Dollar, David; Wolff, Edward N. - The MIT Press

David Dollar and Edward Wolff look at claims that a deindustrialized United States is on the road to secondrate status in the global marketplace and find them to be both unfounded and simplistic. Their systematic and empirical investigation of the mechanisms through which countries like Japan...

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Learning and Productivity of Swedish Exporting Firms: The importance of Innovation Efforts and the Geography of Innovation

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing firms with 10 or more employees for the period 1997-2008, it estimates a dynamic GMM model that captures both the impact of recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and...

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Internal and External Knowledge – Innovation of Export Varieties.

Johansson, Börje; Johansson, Sara; Wallin, Tina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

external knowledge resources. The paper introduces the notion variety triplet to distinguish individual export varieties, where … and external knowledge of local industries influence the industry’s scope and value of export varieties. The paper …

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Technological Imitation and Innovation in New European Union Markets

Uzagalieva, Ainura; Kocenda, Evžen; Menezes, Antonio - CESifo - 2010

We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development—innovation and imitation—are distinguished from one another by identifying the...

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Innovation and credit constraints: Evidence from Swedish exporting firms

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Existing studies associates financial constraints among innovators to small, young and high-tech firms. High adjustment cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available resources. This paper examines whether previous findings on...

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Innovation and Trade in the Presence of Credit Constraints

Foellmi, Reto; Legge, Stefan; Tiemann, Alexa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects investments in R&D at the firm level. In a model where entrepreneurs are heterogeneous in their wealth endowment, they rely differently on external funds. In the presence of capital market imperfections, this implies heterogeneous access to...

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Technological Change, Trade in Intermediates and the Joint Impact on Productivity

Bøler, Esther Ann; Moxnes, Andreas; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest in R&D and source inputs internationally....

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