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FDI and Superstar Spillovers : Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions
Amiti, Mary; Duprez, Cédric; Konings, Jozef; Van … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250146
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512116
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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property
Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by streamlining the licensing process of intellectual property (IP). It notes that in the traditional world, there can be a tension between inventors and developers when it comes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226110
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Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel; Smith, Matthew; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512034
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Climate Risks and FDI
Gu, Grace Weishi; Hale, Galina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
foreign direct investment (FDI) dynamics at different levels of aggregation as well as at firm level. We propose a theoretical … reduction in FDI resulting from both physical and transition risks but an ambiguous interaction effect of these risks with … we do not find consistent evidence for statistically significant effects of physical and transition risks on FDI. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388808
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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World
Lerner, Joshua; Liu, Junxi; Moscona, Jacob; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512047
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Knowledge Spillovers, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment
Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I study knowledge spillovers, positive externalities that augment the information set of an economic agent, and reviews the evidence on such spillovers in the context of international economic transactions. Even though spillovers are by their very nature difficult to identify, over recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510618
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Fencing Off Silicon Valley : Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2020
The treatment of foreign investors has been a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy in recent years. This paper examines foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We model a setting where such funding may allow U.S. entrepreneurs to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481131
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Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading : Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry
Bai, Jie - 2020
While there is a vast body of research on the benefits of FDI in developing countries, whether and how the form of FDI … matters have received limited attention. In this paper, we study the impact of FDI via quid pro quo (technology for market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481192
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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
Qian, Yi - 2010
and citation-weighted) and domestic R&D. FDI establishments and pharmaceutical exports did not increase significantly … between implementation and economic freedom, implementation and educational attainment are indicated to attract more FDI … research to evaluating the effects of patent reforms on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) establishments and imports in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462357