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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D : An Introduction Based on the European Experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro - 2014
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …
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Home Market Effect Versus Multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric - 2007
We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
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Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment
Checchi, Daniele - 2008
It is commonly believed that accumulation of human capital (HC) and availability of physical and financial capitals are among the major determinants of economic growth. In a globalised world, where factors of production are increasingly mobile, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be...
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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production
Papps, Kerry L. - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
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Direct, Spillover and Welfare Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies
Siegloch, Sebastian; Wehrhöfer, Nils; Etzel, Tobias - 2021
We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important...
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy : Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The …
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Product Market Integration and Labour Markets : Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Andersen, Torben M.; Sorensen, Allan - 2021
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room …
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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