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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Bloom, Nicholas; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D ‘spills over’ between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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Productivity Spillovers Through Labor Mobility

Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R; Preugschat, Edgar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that if innovation firms can commit to long … contracts, there is too little innovation and too much imitation in equilibrium. Our model is tractable and allows us to analyze … welfare effects of various policies in the limited commitment case. We find that subsidizing innovation and taxing imitation …

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Foreign Direct Investment and R&D Offshoring

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We analyze a two-country model of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Two firms, each of which is originally situated in only one of the two countries, first decide whether to build a plant in the foreign country. Then, they decide whether to relocate R&D activities. Finally, they engage in...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers: Gradualism May Be Better

Desmet, Klaus; Rojas, Juan A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The standard argument says that in the presence of positive spillovers foreign direct investment should be promoted and subsidized. In contrast, this Paper claims that the very existence of such spillovers may require temporarily restricting and taxing inward FDI. Our argument in favour of...

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Learning by Doing and Multiproduction Effects Over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Siebert, Ralph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this study we derive a structural econometric model of learning by doing with multiproduct competition from a dynamic oligopoly game. We show the importance to account for multiproduction effects through product differentiation when measuring learning by doing. Using quarterly firm-level data...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Efficiency Benefits: A Conditional Quantile Analysis

Dimelis, Sophia; Louri-Dendrinou, Eleni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper analyses the production efficiency gains in terms of technology transfer and labour productivity changes caused by diverse degrees of foreign ownership. The analysis is based on a sample of 4056 domestic and foreign manufacturing firms operating in Greece in 1997. Departures from...

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International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

I discuss the concept and empirical importance of international technology diffusion from the point of view of recent work on endogenous technological change. In this literature, technology is viewed as technological knowledge. I first review major concepts and discuss the relation of...

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Knowledge Spillovers and the Growth of Local Industries

Forni, Mario; Paba, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The literature on localised knowledge spillovers and growth focuses on the relative importance of intra vs. inter-industry externalities, but the nature and the characteristics of the dynamic linkages across manufacturing sectors are not investigated. In this Paper we perform a very...

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Innovation vs imitation and the evolution of productivity distributions

König, Michael; Lorenz, Jan; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms’...

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