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Intellectual Property Rights and Entry into a Foreign Market: FDI vs. Joint Ventures

Naghavi, Alireza; Leahy, Dermot - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

We study the effect of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime of a host country (South) on a multinational's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows...

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Global Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Trade with Complete Specialization

Rübbelke, Dirk T.G.; Mukherjee, Vivekananda - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The paper develops a model in which a country with better technology for abatement of Green House Gas (GHG) emission (the North) commits to an international protocol to keep the global GHG emission within a specified limit while it helps the mitigation effort in the other country (the South)...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …

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Technology Transfer in the Non-traded Sector as a Means to Combat Global Warming

Rübbelke, Dirk T.G.; Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Sanyal, Tilak - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The paper considers a situation where two countries – the North and the South – use a non-traded polluting input to produce the goods for final consumption. The North is more efficient in both, production and abatement processes. The study compares the effects of the transfer of abatement...

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What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence from Patent Data

Glachant, Matthieu; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Using patent data from 66 countries for the period 1990–2003, we characterize the factors which promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale. Regression results show that technology-specific capabilities of the recipient countries are...

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The Pace of Technology Transfer in Anticipation of Joint Venture Breakup

Soubeyran, Rapahel; Long, Ngo Van; Soubeyran, Antoine - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper studies the properties of joint-venture relationship between a technologically advanced multinational firm and a local firm operating in a developing economy where the ability to enforce contracts is weak. We formulate a dynamic model of principal-agent relationship in which at any...

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Technology Transfers and the Clean Development Mechanism in a North-South General Equilibrium Model

Sahlén, Linda; Aronsson, Thomas; Backlund, Kenneth - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper analyzes the potential welfare gains of introducing a technology transfer from Annex I to non-Annex I in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Our analysis is based on a numerical general equilibrium model for a world economy comprising two regions, North (Annex I) and South...

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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer

Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals’ decisions on innovation and location. Firms … stimulates innovation by pushing multinationals to deter entry in high-technology sectors. …

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Technology Transfer Through Trade

Hoppe, Mombert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper examines the role that trade plays in economic development through the channel of technology transfer, approximated by total factor productivity. Three strains of factors influence the process of technology transfer; direct effort that is taken to transfer technologies, the capacity...

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Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment

Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …

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