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Eppinger, Peter S.; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021

Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...

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Covid-19 shocking global value chains

Eppinger, Peter S.; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2020

(in contrast to final goods trade) in transmitting the shock. In a hypothetical world without GVCs, the welfare loss due …

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Patent boxes design, patents location and local R&D

Alstadsæter, Annette; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; … - 2015

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...

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Intellectual property rights, product complexity, and the organization of multinational firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2013

This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...

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The dynamics of comparative advantage

Hanson, Gordon H.; Lind, Nelson; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2015

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …

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Batman forever? : the role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry

Kaiser, Franziska; Cuntz, Alexander; Peukert, Christian - 2023

We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights. But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others...

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Tickets to the global market : first US patent awards and Chinese firm exports

Gong, Kaiji; Li, Yao; Manova, Kalina; Sun, Stephen Teng - 2023

examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful … first-time patent applicants achieve significantly higher export growth, compared to otherwise similar first-time applicants …

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Dynamics of first-time patenting firms

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid - 2022

This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from several business registers covering a period of...

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Competition, imitation, and R&D productivity in a growth model with sector-specific patent protection

Mosel, Malte - 2010

Recent empirical studies suggest a need for a flexible patent regime responding to industry characteristics. In practice, sector-specific modifications of patent strength already exist but lack theoretical foundation. This paper intends to make up for this neglect by scrutinizing in what...

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Undergraduate gender diversity and the direction of scientific research

Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024

Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all-male US universities transitioned to coeducation. Using a generalized difference-in-differences design, we find that coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research...

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