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We are All in the Same Boat : Cross-Border Spillovers of Climate Shocks Through International Trade and Supply Chain

Feng, Alan; Li, Haishi; Wang, Yulin - 2023

Are land locked countries subject to sea-level rise risk? We highlight a new mechanism by which physical climate shocks affects countries’ macro-financial performance: the cross-border spillover effects that propagate through international trade. Basing our findings on historical data between...

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Decoupling Global Value Chains

Eppinger, Peter; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021

Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...

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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?

Fackler, Thomas - 2019

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data

Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023

. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …

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Global Innovation Contests

Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023

This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to …

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Supply Chain Reliability and International Economic Growth : Impacts of Disruptions Like COVID-19

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2020

Reliable supply chains are crucial to the productivity and economic growth of nations. Despite the recognition of its importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply...

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Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence on Bangladesh

Kee, Hiau-Looi - 2020

This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and indirectly related to...

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Pricing and Supply Chain Transparency to Conscientious Consumers

Bertini, Marco; Buehler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel - 2021

This paper studies how a firm should make pricing and transparency decisions when consumers care about supply chain characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit. Surprisingly, we find that the firm may be...

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Backward Versus Forward Integration of Firms in Global Value Chains

Egger, Peter; Erhardt, Katharina; Masllorens, Gerard - 2021

Production processes are increasingly organized in international value-chain networks. The involved firms can be operating at arm’s length or be vertically integrated. Both the incidence and the direction of integration (backward or forward in the value chain) depend on specific...

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