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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty: What have we learned in a decade?
Martuscelli, Antonio; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
studies of the effects of liberalisation on wages. New research has suggested several ways in which intra-sectoral wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171782
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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships
Goh, Ai Ting - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production vary inversely with their technological effort....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136533
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Teaching locals new tricks: foreign experts as a channel of knowledge transfer
Markusen, James R.; Trofimenko, Natalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms have received a good deal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661512
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Trade Policy and Regional Integration: Implications for the Relations between Europe and Africa
Collier, Paul; Toye, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
For Africa, a regional customs union is unlikely to realise net welfare gains (in the sense of trade creation dominating trade diversion) which cannot be attained through unilateral trade liberalization. Unilateral reform has often failed in Africa, however. A regional customs union tied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666481
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Trade Liberalization and Endogenous Growth: A q-Theory Approach
Baldwin, Richard; Forslid, Rikard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper has two purposes. It introduces a direct approach to policy analysis in endogenous growth models - the q-theory approach - and uses this to illustrate several new openness-and-growth links that appear when we enrich the economic content of the early trade and growth models. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114480
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Location of Vertically Linked Industries: Agglomeration versus Comparative Advantage
Amiti, Mary - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper analyses the effects of reducing trade costs on the location of manufacturing firms that are vertically linked and differ in factor intensities. I extend the new economic geography literature, by embedding a model with vertical linkages within a Heckscher-Ohlin framework. Firms can...
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Missing Gains from Trade?
Melitz, Marc J; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
that this quantitative approach typically abstracts from: trade-induced changes in domestic productivity. Using a model of … sequential production, in which trade induces a reorganization of production that raises domestic productivity, we show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083222
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Global View of Economic Growth
Ventura, Jaume - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666914
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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
productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest … cover the fixed costs of sourcing foreign inputs, which in turn also has a benign impact on measured productivity. Using …&D investment play a key role in explaining firm-level productivity growth. Moreover, the estimated returns to R&D are significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084440
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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy
Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...
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