technology diffusion, with the productivity of imitation modeled by a catch-up function that increases with distance to the … frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates … optimally choose to "catch-up" or "fall-back" to a productivity ratio below the frontier …

This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct … imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of FDI. The increase in FDI more than offsets the decline in production undertaken …

which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …