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Market Structure, Technological Gap and Vertical Linkage Effects from Foreign Direct Investment

Kadochnikov, Sergey; Drapkin, Igor M. - 2021

This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the market structure of the final goods sector is represented by a monopoly or Cournot oligopoly, and the supplier sector - by a pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining...

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Compliance Technology and Self-Enforcing Agreements

Harstad, Bård - 2015

We analyze a repeated game in which countries are polluting as well as investing in technologies. While folk theorems point out that the first best can be sustained as a subgame-perfect equilibrium when the players are sufficiently patient, we derive the second best equilibrium when they are...

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International R&D Spillovers and Marginal Social Returns on R&D

Ogawa, Kazuo - 2017

We analyze the impact of international R&D spillovers on recipient countries in terms of social and private returns. We divide the aggregate R&D stock by the business, government and education sectors and examine the impact on Total Factor Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D...

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Technology Adoption in Education : Usage, Spillovers and Student Achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted by their end users and are effective in practice. This paper studies the adoption, diffusion, and effects of one type of technology that is increasingly ubiquitous:...

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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China

Jiang, Kun - 2018

This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a domestic firm that together set up a new firm, the joint venture. Employing administrative data on all international joint ventures in China from 1998 to 2007—roughly a quarter of...

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Measuring the Spillovers of Venture Capital

Schnitzer, Monika - 2020

We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...

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Ideas Production and International Knowledge Spillovers : Digging Deeper into Emerging Countries

Luintel, Kul - 2018

Research and Development (R&D) activities of emerging countries (EMEs) have increased considerably in recent years. Recent micro studies and anecdotal evidence points to industrialized countries as the sources of knowledge in EMEs. In this context, we examine ideas production and international...

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International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization

Bosetti, Valentina - 2014

economic growth; hence, any better understanding of the process of technological innovation is likely to increase our knowledge …;D international spillovers. The basic questions are as follows. Do knowledge spillovers enhance energy technological innovation in … different regions of the world? Does the speed of innovation increase? Or do free-riding incentives prevail and international …

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Incentive Regulation, Investments and Technological Change

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2021

commitment for the whole time horizon of infrastructure or innovation investments is impossible. The compatibility of incentive …

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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