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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and Developing Economies
Rodrik, Dani - 2018
Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...
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Multinational Production, Skilled Labor and Real Wages
Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony J. - 2021
multinationals export low skilled jobs to the lower income country. Third, trade barriers do not protect unskilled labor in the high …
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Innovation and Production in the Global Economy
Arkolakis, Costas - 2015
of China into the world economy may hurt countries that are driven to specialize in production due to HMEs, although …
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The Connection between Imported Intermediate Inputs and Exports : Evidence from Chinese Firms
Feng, Ling - 2012
We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry … of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2016
The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …
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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2010
This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting estimator to show that multinational firms acquire the most productive domestic firms, which, on acquisition, conduct more product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting...
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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
Qian, Yi - 2014
Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a comprehensive database useful for evaluating the...
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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
Keller, Wolfgang - 2014
This paper examines how international flows of technological knowledge affect economic performance across industries and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that are active across borders, we focus on international trade...
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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production
McGrattan, Ellen - 2017
In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are based on simulations of a multicountry neoclassical growth model that includes multinational firms...
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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
Coe, David T. - 2010
The empirical analysis in quot;International Ramp;D Spilloversquot; (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results...
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