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Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014

manufacturers in China's wind power industry. …

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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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Policy uncertainty and manufacturing investment : evidence from U.S. State elections

Shelton, Cameron A.; Falk, Nathan - 2016 - This draft: March 2016

We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan … affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …

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Technological progress, the supply of hours worked, and the consumption-leisure complementarity

Irmen, Andreas - 2018 - This Version: January 23, 2018

At least since 1870 hours worked per worker declined and real wages increased in many of today's industrialized countries. The dual nature of technological progress in conjunction with a consumption-leisure complementarity explains these stylized facts. Technological progress drives real wages...

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Firm and establishment volatility : the role of sunk costs, profit uncertainty and technological change

Ghosal, Vivek - 2003

. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high … reveals that (1) the typical industry experiences significant fluctuations in the number of firms and (2) there are large … cross-industry differences in this dimension. Theory suggests several potential factors that might explain this dispersion …

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Trade, technology, and productivity : a study of Brazilian manufacturers, 1986-1998

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2004

Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two-digit level under various alternatives, including an...

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Globalization, wage polarization, and the unstable great ratio

Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - 2014

The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...

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Foreign ownership and skillbiased technological change

Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

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Technological transfers in global climate policy

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Dippl, Lisa; Eichenseer, Michael - 2015 - This version: September 30, 2015

Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence show that leadership behavior in climate policy through increased abatement efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering activities, which are based on green technological...

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Technology gaps, trade and income

Sampson, Thomas - 2019

innovation-dependence by industry from R&D and bilateral trade data. Calibrating the model implies technology gaps, due to cross …

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