A coalition of well-organized semiconductor producers along with compliant government agencies (USTR and the Commerce … in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five … protectionism.' This paper examines how the U.S. semiconductor industry became the beneficiary of this unique and unprecedented …

This paper has examined the factors that affect the pattern of introduction of semiconductor innovations into the …

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in … implications for gauging the rate of innovation in the semiconductor sector …

Sparked by concerns about their shrinking market share, 14 leading U.S. semiconductor producers, with the financial … -- in 1987. Using Compustat data on all U.S. semiconductor firms, we estimate the effects of Sematech on members' R …

“Moore's Law” in the semiconductor manufacturing industry is used to describe the predictable historical evolution of a … and innovation measurement, but these other benefits do, and motivate quality adjustment methods when semiconductor … from prices for other types of semiconductor chips.A computer architecture textbook model of how chip characteristics …

cumulative innovation. Recent evidence suggests that semiconductor firms do not rely heavily on patents, despite the … strengthening of US patent rights in the early 1980s. Yet the propensity of semiconductor firms to patent has risen dramatically … semiconductor firms during 1980-94. The results suggest that stronger patents may have facilitated entry by firms in niche product …

present evidence for the semiconductor industry that RJVs indeed represent viable alternatives to mergers. We empirically …

(frictional) price dispersion across suppliers. Using uniquely detailed transaction- level data from the semiconductor industry …-adjusted index for semiconductor fabrication, and propose a general method for bounding the true constant-quality price index …

semiconductor firms for whom they work. In this paper we use these data to examine the role of research personnel as a pathway for … semiconductor firms are increasingly locating operations in foreign countries to employ such researchers, as opposed to such … facilitate the use of output of non-U.S. Ramp;D. We also find that in the semiconductor industry smaller and older firms, and in …