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Recent evidence suggests that despite opening up a country for trade, the productivity gap between developed and … liberalization increases economic performance, that is average productivity and technology adoption, in both countries but that the … productivity gap widens. Simulations show that the welfare gap widens too. Opening up without sufficient access to external funding …
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This paper analyzes firms' choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on firms' decision to validate a patent in a particular...
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In many developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption. This is surprising from a political economy perspective, as the majority of people generally suffers from high corruption levels. We explain why citizens do not exert enough political pressure to reduce corruption if...
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It is often argued that multinationals are reluctant to transfer technology due to the fear of spillovers. We show that this need not be the case if host country policies like taxation are taken into account. Furthermore, we examine the incentives the multinational and the host country have to...
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This paper provides a unified analysis for the onset of the 1998 financial crisis and the strong economic recovery afterward in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. Before the crisis a banking failure arose owing to the coexistence of a lemons credit market and high government...
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We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … and innovations. In these equilibria, signaling in the entry auction does not occur since contestants play a simple …
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innovations, and keep small innovations secret, while a Bertrand competitor adopts the reverse strategy. Increasing the number of …
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Many high technology goods are based on standards that require access to several patents that are owned by different IP holders. We investigate the royalties chosen by IP holders under different market structures. Vertical integration of an IP holder and a downstream producer solves the double...
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differences in countries' factor endowments and total factor productivity (the Solow residual). While the former can be relatively … interpretation for differences in total factor productivity across countries and quantitatively explore the role of trade barriers in …
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I develop a model of R&D cooperation with uncertain research outcomes. In this model asymmetric outcomes of R&D competition emerge naturally. Therefore ex-ante and ex-post R&D cooperation can be studied as alternatives for firms. Using this model I compare welfare losses under ex-ante and...
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