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Sources of productivity spillovers : panel data evidence from China
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2014
This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …
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Foreign ownership and skillbiased technological change
Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018
upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929606
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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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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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A dynamic analysis of licensing : the Boomerang effect and grant-back clauses
Choi, Jay Pil - 1999
This paper develops an incomplete contract model of the licensing relationship to analyze the dynamic effects of licensing on R&D competition in the innovation market and to examine the rationale for often observed grant-back clauses. Of particular concern are how the consideration of future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781683
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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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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002
The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduces the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...
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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
where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029168
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Trade, technology, and productivity : a study of Brazilian manufacturers, 1986-1998
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2004
inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is … inferred and then related to trade. Findings suggest that (1) foreign competition pressures firms to raise productivity …
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