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Technology and Trade
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
We survey research on the relationship between technology and trade. We begin with the old literature, which treated … the state of technology as exogenous and asked how changes in technology affect the trade pattern and welfare. Recent … research and development. This allows one to examine not only how technology affects trade, but also how trade affects the …
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Have R&D Spillovers Changed?
Lucking, Brian - 2019
2015, and update the measures of firms' interactions in technology space and product market space. We show that the …
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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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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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Trade, Knowledge Spillovers, and Growth
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2010
In this paper, we examine one channel through which the trade regime might affect growth in the long run. We model endogenous technological progress that results from profit maximizing investments by far-sighted entrepreneurs. Productivity in the research lab depends upon the "stock of knowledge...
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Assessing the Impact of Organizational Practices on the Productivity of University Technology Transfer Offices : an Exploratory Study
Siegel, Donald S.; Waldman, David; Link, Albert - 2021
We present quantitative and qualitative evidence (field research) on university technology transfer offices (TTOs …
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Transfers
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021
In this paper I develop a positive theory of intergenerational transfers. I argue that transfers are a means to induce retirement. that is, to buy the elderly out of the labor force. The reason why societies choose to do such a thing is that aggregate output is higher if the elderly do not work....
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Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research
Roach, Michael - 2014
This paper assesses the validity and accuracy of firms' backward patent citations as a measure of knowledge flows from public research by employing a newly constructed dataset that matches patents to survey data at the level of the R&D lab. Using survey-based measures of the dimensions of...
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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space : Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
Azoulay, Pierre - 2015
Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...
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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants : The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2010
While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of cumulativeness are less understood. This paper investigates the impact of a research-enhancing institution on cumulativeness, highlighting two effects. First, a selection effect...
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