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three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with …
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The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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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 the major concepts, and how international technology...
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This paper presents a new data set on the diffusion of about 115 technologies in over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to uncover general patterns of technology diffusion. Our main 5 findings are as follows: (i) Once the intensive margin is measured,...
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-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
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This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
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This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
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Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...
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companies to disentangle the role of technological change, market power, and globalization in driving a fall in the labor share … measured using four firm and twenty firm concentration ratios and globalization is measured as export shares in total revenues … smaller. Finally, the evidence on globalization is mixed: trade shares are at times negatively associated with the labor share …
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