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Long-Term International Capital Movements and Technology : A Review
Zebregs, Harm - 1999
on the international distribution of technology. It focuses on long-term investment flows, as these are more affected by … context of various technology specifications, ranging from models with only one common technology to those with multiple and … endogenous technologies. The paper demonstrates that the theoretical specification of technology is crucial to the prediction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401018
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To ""B"" or Not to ""B"" : A Welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model
Xie, Danyang - 2000
This paper studies the welfare consequences of a government regulation that forces a patented equipment to be supplied by a number of independent producers. On the one hand, such a regulation hurts the value of a patent and therefore reduces activities in the R&D sector. On the other hand, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399731
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Institutions, innovations, and Growth
Xu, Chenggang - 1999
&D), which are endogenized through financial institutions. The theory and its results shed lights on the debate of convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403467
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Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth
Chong, Alberto - 2000
This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403519
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The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries
Behar, Alberto - 2013
skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing … cheaper. Increased skill supply further biases technical change in favor of skilled labor. Free trade induces technology that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395381
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Liberating Supply-Fiscal Policy and Technological innovation in a Multicountry Model
Laxton, Douglas - 1998
This paper examines how endogenizing technological progress in a multicountry macroeconometric model affects the analysis of fiscal policies. It uses an expanded version of the IMF’s multicountry model, MULTIMOD, in which total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenized as a function of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403417
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Can international technological diffusion substitute for coordinated global policies to mitigate climate change?
Barrett, Philip - 2021
In short, yes. I use a multi-region integrated assessment model with fuel-specific endogenous technical change to examine the impact of Europe and China reducing emissions to zero by mid-century. Without international technological diffusion this is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610702
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The return of the policy that shall not be named : principles of industrial policy
Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2019
story that many ignore or claim it cannot be replicated. Using a theory and empirical evidence, we argue that one can learn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010001
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Sizing up the effects of technological decoupling
Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Eugster, Johannes; Mano, Rui; Muir, Dirk - 2021
decouple via 'preferential attachment' - id est by aligning themselves with the hub they trade most with. All global technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518889
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Technology and Finance
Ilyina, Anna - 2008
The benefits from financial development are known to vary across industries. However, no systematic effort has been made to determine the technological characteristics that are shared by industries that tend to grow relatively faster in more financially developed countries. This paper explores a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401818