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development and fluctuations. In many such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …
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We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction of new goods whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are …
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We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …
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We discuss a unified theory of directed technological change and technology adoption that can shed light on the causes of persistent productivity differences across countries. In our model, new technologies are designed in advanced countries and diffuse endogenously to less developed countries....
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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In a world where poor countries provide weak protection for intellectual property rights, market integration shifts technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income differences. At the same time, integration with countries where...
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European Union policymakers have in principle put innovation at the heart of competitiveness, in particular in the … Europe 2020 strategy. But in merger control, assessments of the innovation effects of mergers are inadequate, even though … capability to innovate. EU merger control rules include scope for assessing the innovation effects of mergers, but in practice …
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, but Chinese patenting for exploitation on the main markets for innovation(the European Union, Japan and the US) is still … marginal. - Asia's increased innovation spending is most prominently related to information and communication technologies …'s innovation potential on the basis of its current performance. Its clear innovation ambitions are likely to drive its future …
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