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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …
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Measuring firm activity from outer space
Bilicka, Katarzyna; Seidel, André - 2022 - This draft: April 2022
To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...
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Economic costs of friend-shoring
Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Kitzmüller, Lucas; … - 2023
Geo-political tensions and disruptions to global value chains have led policy makers to re-evaluate their approach to globalisation. Many countries are considering friend-shoring - trading primarily with countries sharing similar values - as a way of minimising exposure to weaponisation of trade...
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Inventors’ coworker networks and innovation
Di Addario, Sabrina; Feng, Zhexin; Serafinelli, Michel - 2024
This paper presents direct evidence on how firms’ innovation is affected by access to knowledgeable labor through co-worker network connections. We use a unique dataset that matches patent data to administrative employer–employee records from "Third Italy"—a region with many successful...
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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2014
Gumpert, Anna - 2015
This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production plants if communication costs impede the access of...
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Borders and distance in knowledge spillovers : dying over time or dying with age? ; evidence from patent citations
Li, Yao - 2009
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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Where is the value added? : trade liberalization and production networks
Aichele, Rahel; Heiland, Inga - 2016
, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … and for about 7% of the decline in this figure on the world level as observed between 2000 and 2007. Furthermore, our …
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What does network analysis teach us about international environmental cooperation?
Carattini, Stefano; Fankhauser, Samuel; Gao, Jianjian; … - 2021
Over the past 70 years, the number of international environmental agreements (IEAs) has increased substantially, highlighting their prominent role in environmental governance. This paper applies the toolkit of network analysis to identify the network properties of international environmental...
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The network origins of the gains from trade
Bosker, Maarten; Westbrock, Bastian - 2019
In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today's internationally fragmented supply chains. Towards this end, we study a Ricardian trade model featuring trade in final and intermediate products, and introduce a novel comparative statics approach to...
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The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018
The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms' potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and characteristics...
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