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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015

We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...

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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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International Protection of Intellectual Property

Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - CESifo - 2002

innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the duration of a country’s patents that are applied with national … are patents longer in the North? We also study international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient …

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Dynamic Protection of Innovations through Patents and Trade Secrets

Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Paul - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...

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Would Global Patent Protection be too Weak without International Coordination?

Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K.-M. - CESifo - 2011

This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...

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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - CESifo - 2013

By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level …

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The Globalization Paradox Revisited

Schwerhoff, Gregor; Edenhofer, Ottmar - CESifo - 2014

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …

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'Globesity'? The Effects of Globalization on Obesity and Caloric Intake

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - CESifo - 2014

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … social globalization, and specifically the effects of changes in information flows and social proximity. A one standard …

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International Trade, Factor Mobility and the Persistence of Cultural-Institutional Diversity

Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - CESifo - 2009

Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

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Capital Importers Pay More for their Imports

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2012

We examine the effects that a country’s net capital flows have on the (border) prices that a country pays for its imports of goods. Using data from 2000 to 2009 for 11 euro area countries we utilize a pricing-to-market specification to study exporters’ pricing behavior to the rest of the...

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