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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change
Koch, Michael - 2019
We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...
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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer: Evidence from China
Jiang, Kun; Keller, Wolfgang; Qiu, Larry D.; Ridley, William - 2018
externalities are large, perhaps twice the size of wholly-owned FDI spillovers, and it is R&D-intensive firms, including the joint … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China’s FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures. …
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Climate, Technology and Value: Insights from the First Decade with Mass-Consumption of Electric Vehicles
Andreassen, Gøril L.; Lind, Jo Thori - 2022
We investigate empirically whether the market value of electric vehicles, which have rapid technological progress, decline faster over their lifetime than gasoline vehicles, which is a mature technology. We use novel data from the market with the highest market shares for electric vehicles in...
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Let's Switch to the Cloud: Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
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Let's Switch to the Cloud : Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076705
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Climate, Technology and Value : Insights from the First Decade with Mass-Consumption of Electric Vehicles
Andreassen, Gøril L.; Lind, Jo Thori - 2022
We investigate empirically whether the market value of electric vehicles, which have rapid technological progress, decline faster over their lifetime than gasoline vehicles, which is a mature technology. We use novel data from the market with the highest market shares for electric vehicles in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081429
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Global Collaborative Patents
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2010
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...
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Credit Constraints and FDI Spillovers in China
Agarwal, Natasha; Milner, Chris; Riaño, Alejandro - 2013
firms. Using firm-level data for 2001-2005, we find evidence of positive spillovers originating from FDI from countries …
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The internationalisation of R&D and the knowledge production function
García-Vega, María; Hofmann, Patricia; Kneller, Richard - 2012
This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology … sourcing FDI, acquisitions from non-leading countries increase internal R&D efforts. …
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