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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266020
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The Role of Human Capital in Structural Change and Growth in an Open Economy: Innovative and Absorptive Capacity Effects
Bye, Brita; Faehn, Taran - 2021
capital, R&D and trade interact, and enable absorption, tend to grow fastest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493003
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264489
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892251
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Technology Gaps, Trade and Income
Sampson, Thomas - 2019
with higher R&D efficiency are richer and have comparative advantage in more innovation-dependent industries where the … where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The … theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866618
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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219073
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Policies to Internalize Reciprocal International Spillovers
Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; … - 2021
An effective policy scheme to overcome the suboptimal low provision levels of global public goods is developed in this paper. By suggesting a decentralized approach to raise environmental public good provision levels we take account of the lack of a coercive global authority that is able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316908
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Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development : Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
Giorcelli, Michela; Li, Bo - 2022
This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the “156 Projects” in China for building technologically advanced industrial facilities. We exploit idiosyncratic delays in project...
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Technology Transfer in Global Value Chains
Sampson, Thomas - 2022
how this distinction affects the returns to offshoring, the welfare effects of technical change and the social efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307214
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Organizational Barriers to Transforming Large Finance Corporations : Cloud Adoption and the Importance of Technological Architecture
Cao, Sam (Ruiqing); Iansiti, Marco - 2023
This paper studies the impact of technological architecture around data storage and processing on the performance of large financial corporations after being exposed to more stringent data privacy regulations. A modular approach to cloud adoption – which reflects in the lack of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264871