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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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Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading : Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry

Bai, Jie; Barwick, Panle Jia; Cao, Shengmao; Li, Shanjun - 2022

other hand, while quid pro quo facilitates learning, such a requirement is not a prerequisite for knowledge spillover …

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Trade and Transmission of Technology

Keller, Wolfgang - 2021

We present a model of R&D-driven growth which predicts that technology, in the form of product designs and created through R&D investments, is transmitted to other domestic and foreign sectors by being embodied in differentiated intermediate goods. Empirical results are presented employing data...

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Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the Us Economy, 1958 to 2007

Wolff, Edward N. - 2014

I speculate that technological spillover effects may have become more important over time as IT penetrated the U.S. economy. The rationale is that IT may speed up the process of knowledge transfer and make these knowledge spillovers more effective. Using US input-output tables for years 1958,...

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Public & Private Spillovers, Location and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2014

institutions are qualitatively different from those from privately owned firms (Jaffe, 1986; Krugman, 1991; Jaffe et al., 1993 … pharmaceutical firms to explore the extent to which knowledge spills over from proximate private and public institutions. Our data …, or competitively funded research, and to more deeply explore the role that institutions and geographic proximity play in …

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Investment-Horizon Spillovers

Chinco, Alex - 2017

This paper uses wavelets to decompose each stock's trading-volume variance into frequency-specific components. We find that stocks dominated by short-run fluctuations in trading volume have abnormal returns that are 1% per month higher than otherwise similar stocks where short-run fluctuations...

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Have R&D Spillovers Changed?

Lucking, Brian - 2019

This paper revisits the results of Bloom, Schankerman, and Van Reenen (2013) examining the impact of R&D on the performance of US firms, especially through spillovers. We extend their analysis to include an additional 15 years of data through 2015, and update the measures of firms' interactions...

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2021

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...

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Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

Blomstrom, Magnus; Sjoholm, Fredrik - 2021

This paper examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign multinational affiliates. More specifically, we try to answer two questions, using unpublished Indonesian micro data. Firstly, do establishments with minority and majority ownership...

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Supplier Relations and Adoption of New Technology : Results of Survey Research in the U.S. Auto Industry

Helper, Susan - 2021

Using an original data source, this paper investigates the circumstances under which firms adopt computer numerical control (CNC), an important type of flexible automation which can significantly increase productivity, product variety and quality. The paper shows that arms'-length...

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