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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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Industrial policy and the great divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023
, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391314
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Organizational barriers to transforming large finance corporations : cloud adoption and the importance of technological architecture
Cao, Ruiqing; Iansiti, Marco - 2022 - Original version: December 2022, this version: February 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...
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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010
This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
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ICT, collaboration, and science-based innovation : evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...
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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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Technology transfer in global value chains
Sampson, Thomas - 2022
Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...
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Why trade when you can transfer the technology : revisiting smith and ricardo
Acharyya, Rajat; Marjit, Sugata - 2021
This paper explores the possibility of international technology transfer in lieu of trade in a model with absolute and comparative advantage. Countries having absolute advantage in producing a good may offer that technology to a possible trading partner against a fee and both the countries might...
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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This version: April 30th, 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … subsequent decades. Nevertheless, early industrialization had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by … that the characteristics that permitted the onset of industrialization, rather than the adoption of industrial technology …
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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
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