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Are ex ante and ex post licensing agreements useful instruments to lessen uncertainty in R&D?

Siebert, Ralph - 2013

In the last decades, technologies became more complex which increased the degree of uncertainty in R&D. To overcome the uncertainty, firms frequently engage in R&D collaborations, e.g., Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), and licensing agreements. While RJVs are well explored in the literature, very...

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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Finance, talent allocation, and growth

D'Acunto, Francesco; Frésard, Laurent - 2018

The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...

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Product versus process : innovation strategies of multi-product firms

Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2015

We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …

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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries

Yang, Lei (contributor); Maskus, Keith E. (contributor) - 2008

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...

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Cross-country income differences and technology diffusion in a competitive world

Irmen, Andreas - 2008

policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …

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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

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The internationalisation of R&D and the knowledge production function

García-Vega, María; Hofmann, Patricia; Kneller, Richard - 2012

This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are...

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Technology transfers for climate change

Elsayyad, May; Morath, Florian - 2013

This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...

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Market power of the input supplier, technology transfer and consumer welfare

Cao, Jiyun; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2014

It is believed that market power of the input supplier, charging a linear price, is detrimental for the consumers since it creates the double marginalisation problem. We show that this view may not be true if the final goods producers can adopt strategies to reduce rent extraction by the input...

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