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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik - 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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Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Vertically Related Markets
Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2013
We provide an alternative explanation for the commonly observed FDI in developed countries (DCs) considering a vertically related market structure and endogenizing vertical technology transfer (VTT). We show that even though VTT is more costly in a less developed country (LDC), a multinational...
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Incomplete Contracts and the Impact of Globalization on Consumer Welfare
Defever, Fabrice - 2014
We embed a North-South trade model into an incomplete contracts setting where the production of heterogeneous firms can be geographically separated. When a Northern headquarter contracts with a Southern supplier instead of a Northern supplier, the presence of international incomplete contracts...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Technology Transfers
Biancini, Sara - 2018
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...
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A Note on Brain Gain and Brain Drain : Permanent Migration and Education Policy
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2021
In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2021
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2021
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...
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Development-Related Biases in Factor Productivities and the HOV Model of Trade
Maskus, Keith E.; Nishioka, Shuichiro - 2021
Past empirical failures of the basic Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model related to the inability of data to meet its restrictive assumptions, particularly identical international technologies and factor price equalization. Trefler (1993) tried to resuscitate HOV by introducing a simple...
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Globalization and the Price Decline of Illicit Drugs
Costa Storti, Claudia; De Grauwe, Paul - 2021
decline has tended to offset the effects of drug policies aimed at reducing drug use in major industrial countries. The main … margin (the difference between the retail and producer prices) in the drug business. We develop the hypothesis, and give some … some thoughts about the effects of globalization on the effectiveness of drug policies and argue that globalization may …
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Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in Fast-Growing Countries : The Benefits of Early Action
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2021
This paper builds on the assumption that OECD countries are (or will soon be) taking actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also get involved in the cooperative effort to reduce GHG...
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