We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment …

We analyze the impact of accession to the regional patent system established by the European Patent Convention (EPC) on … applicants at the national patent offices and the European Patent Office (EPO). Our findings suggest a strong change in patent … filing behavior among foreigners seeking patent protection in the accession states, substituting EPO patents for domestic …

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … national pharmaceutical patent laws during the period from 1978 to 2002. This paper is a companion piece that extends the … research to evaluating the effects of patent reforms on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) establishments and imports in …

France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in conjunction with a model of patent holders' renewal decisions, to estimate the … innovation process, the model allows agents to be uncertain about the sequence of returns that will be earned if the patent is … spans,and calculations of both; the annual returns earned from holding the patents still in force (or the patent stocks) in …

and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that … technological externalities, or spillovers. In addition to reviewing the recent empirical research on technology spillovers, the … discussion is guided by a new model of foreign direct investment, trade, and endogenous technology transfer. We find evidence for …

on technology transfer and how property rights might affect such transfers and host-country welfare. Much of this … local managers learn the multinational's technology and can defect to start a rival firm. If contract enforcement leads the …

, and often subsidized to set up their joint venture. Second, we document benefits from foreign technology in terms of … claims regarding international technology transfer that underpin the current China-U.S. trade war …