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Firm innovation under import competition from low-wage countries
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Liu, Runjuan; Tang, Rotao - 2017
In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge in imports from China on innovation in the US...
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Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view
Carluccio, Juan; Cuñat, Alejandro; Fadinger, Harald; … - 2015
We present a factor-proportions trade model in which heterogeneous firms can offshore intermediate inputs subject to fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than...
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Offshoring and non-monotonic employment effects across industries in general equilibrium
Baumgarten, Daniel; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2020
We address the mismatch between existing theoretical models and standard empirical practice in the analysis of the labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit variation in offshoring across a large number of industries,...
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Firms' exports, volatility and skills : evidence from France
Bas, Maria; Bombarda, Pamela; Jean, Sébastien; … - 2019
Inequalities between workers of different skills have been growing in the era of globalization. Firms' internationalization mode has an impact on job stability. Exporting firms are not only exposed to different foreign shocks, they also pay skill-intensive fixed costs to serve foreign markets....
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The twin effects of globalization : evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
sample of Indian manufacturing firms. -- globalization ; uncertainty ; training ; labor markets ; India …
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Integrating India with Asian production networks : prospects and challenges
Nag, Biswajit; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; De, Debdeep - 2015
toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of "Make in India", India needs to be … service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from … India's perspective. It also examines the trends and patterns; and prospects of integration as well as the prospects for …
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Modi's "Make in India" industrial reform policy and East Asian flying-geese paradigm
Nam, Chang-woon; Nam, Sumin; Steinhoff, Peter - 2017
The on-going "Make in India" campaign aims at manufacturing revival. Its characteristics resemble East Asian industrial …'s specialisation pattern and global competitiveness accompanied by economic growth. Unlikely, "Make in India" comprises heterogeneous … modernisation and growth, will shape the success of India's diversified industrial policy. …
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Pharmaceutical patents : incentives for R&D or marketing?
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2008
We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R&D investments in new (differentiated) drugs, and thereby affect the probability distribution of future market structures in the industry. Within a fairly general model framework,...
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Innovative sales, R&D and total innovation expenditures : panel evidence on their dynamics
Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2009
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum likelihood a dynamic panel data bivariate tobit with...
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Innovation and trade with heterogeneous firms
Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - 2009
This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. Among the robust results that hold...
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