This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … determinants of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …

This paper evaluates the welfare implications of privatization in emerging market economies, in countries where … policies are determined by the median voter. We show that privatization may lead to large efficiency gains by changing the menu … of taxes. We illustrate this point with two examples. First, we consider privatization of import competing public …

outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary … innovation is not the same innovation freely available but the unchanged generic technology. Growth is concentrated in any …

costs has no impact at all, in steady-state, on firms' investments in process innovation. We then show that if only a subset … of firms export, a decline in marginal trade costs raises process innovation in exporting firms relative to that of non …-exporting firms. This reallocation of process innovation reinforces existing patterns of comparative advantage, and leads to an …

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …