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Patent Boxes Design, Patents Location and Local R&D

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2015

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...

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The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2015

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …

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Competition, Imitation, and R&D Productivity in a Growth Model with Sector-Specific Patent Protection

Mosel, Malte - 2021

Recent empirical studies suggest a need for a flexible patent regime responding to industry characteristics. In practice, sector-specific modifications of patent strength already exist but lack theoretical foundation. This paper intends to make up for this neglect by scrutinizing in what...

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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence

Simonovska, Ina - 2011

Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...

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Where is the Value Added? Trade Liberalization and Production Networks

Aichele, Rahel - 2019

-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly … replicates the increase in the DVA ratio, driven by the export-processing zones. Furthermore, our results imply that China's WTO …

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Uncertain Productivity Growth and the Choice between FDI and Export

Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2009

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology …

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Patent Exhaustion Regime and International Production Sharing : Winners and Losers?

Ivus, Olena - 2017

On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court held that the initial authorized sale of a patented item within or outside the U.S. “exhausts” all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S....

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Taxing Intellectual Property in the Global Economy : A Plea for Regulated and Internationally Coordinated Profit Splitting

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2017

Inter-country equity in the taxation of IP is a contentious issue. With its BEPS initiative, the OECD aims at taxing in accordance with value creation even though there are admitted difficulties in determining the actual place of value creation. The European Commission promotes the introduction...

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Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers : Dying over Time or Dying with Age? - Evidence from Patent Citations

Li, Yao - 2012

This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited...

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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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