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Two central insights from the Schumpeterian approach to innovation and growth are that the pace of innovation is … empirical literature on trade and innovation. We highlight four key mechanisms through which international trade affects … endogenous innovation and growth: (i) market size; (ii) competition; (iii) comparative advantage; (iv) knowledge spillovers. Each …
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-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and … innovation. It features the joint selection of firms into innovation and international market participation (in our model, we … for innovation …
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). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …
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welfare effects and point to migration and, to a lesser extent, innovation as important adaptation mechanisms. We use the …
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costs has no impact at all, in steady-state, on firms' investments in process innovation. We then show that if only a subset … of firms export, a decline in marginal trade costs raises process innovation in exporting firms relative to that of non …-exporting firms. This reallocation of process innovation reinforces existing patterns of comparative advantage, and leads to an …
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This paper investigates the effect of export shocks on innovation. On the one hand a positive shock increases market … size and therefore innovation incentives for all firms. On the other hand it increases competition as more firms enter the … export market. This in turn reduces profits and therefore innovation incentives particularly for firms with low productivity …
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Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...
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Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...
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This paper examines the evidence on technology diffusion through trade in differentiated intermediate goods. Because intermediates are invented through costly research and development (R&D) investments, employing imported intermediates implies an implicit sharing of the technology that was...
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