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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
to fostering innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969384
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results … indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251495
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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Acemoglu, Daron; van Reenen, John; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. However, the manager can use her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089025
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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry
bloom, nicholas; van Reenen, John; Schankerman, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Support for R&D subsidies relies on empirical evidence that R&D "spills over" between firms. But firm performance is affected by two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative business stealing effects from R&D by product market rivals. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050282
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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization
bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034561
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Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China
Branstetter, Lee; Foley, C. Fritz - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830241
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Openness, Technology Capital, and Development
Prescott, Edward C.; McGrattan, Ellen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research … the fact that a firm can use it simultaneously in multiple domestic and foreign locations. Foreign technology capital is … exploited by permitting foreign direct investment by multinationals. In both steady-state and transitional analyses, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774385
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Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations
Griffith, Rachel; van Reenen, John; Lee, Sokbae - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We examine the home bias of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). We present the first compelling econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has fallen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774873
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From Beijing to Bentonville: Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?
Swenson, Deborah L.; Head, Keith; Jing, Ran - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral exports between the retailers' Chinese operations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531878
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International R&D Deployment and Locational Advantage: A Case Study of Taiwan
Liu, Meng-Chun; Chen, Shin-Horng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
-tier supplier advantage' in a Taiwanese context. We take advantage of an official database to reveal the patterns of foreign … corporate R&D in Taiwan and to systematically examine the determinants of the R&D intensity of foreign affiliates at industry … level. Our empirical results show that within Taiwan, foreign affiliates with higher R&D intensity tend to be more export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027077