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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - CESifo - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break intoexport markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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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 dominant orientation of innovation efforts at the industry level. Specific …
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Shop Around and You Pay More
Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw D.; Heravi, Saeed; … - CESifo - 2014
that visiting larger number of stores makes households less likely to save using store-loyalty discounts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888454
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show that this trade-promoting effect of language...
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877646
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The Theory of the Firm Goes Global
Marin, Dalia - CESifo - 2013
What insights can be gained from bringing the theory of the firm to the global economy? I discuss several new features of the world economy that can be explained by incorporating the theory of the firm into the theory of international trade. Among the new features I discuss are the move to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877726
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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade
Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2013
Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877855
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Preferences, Rent Destruction and Multilateral Liberalisation: The Building Block Effect of CUSFTA
Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - CESifo - 2012
If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can...
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Can and Should the EU's Eastern Partnership be Saved?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - CESifo - 2014
In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877942
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EU-Accession Effects on Sectoral Trade: A Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein Approach with Panel Data
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, … - CESifo - 2014
This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in final goods separately. A gravity model is applied to disaggregated trade data over the period 1999-2009 for trade between EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877956