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Keller, Wolfgang - 2021

I discuss the concept and empirical importance of international technology diffusion from the point of view of recent work on endogenous technological change. In this literature, technology is viewed as technological knowledge. I first review the major concepts, and how international technology...

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Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion

Comin, Diego; Hobijn, Bart; Rovito, Emilie - 2021

This paper presents a new data set on the diffusion of about 115 technologies in over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to uncover general patterns of technology diffusion. Our main 5 findings are as follows: (i) Once the intensive margin is measured,...

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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis

Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010

We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on …

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Pop Internationalism : Has a Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?

Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel - 2010

Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...

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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 has attempted to endogenize technological progress...

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Technology, Trade, and Wages

Adams, James D. - 2021

same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less … skilled; and the stock of world innovation and US patents decreases real wages especially for the less skilled. Turning to the …

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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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Adoption Curves and Social Interactions

Brock, William A. - 2010

This paper considers the observational implications of social influences on adoption decisions for an environment of perfect foresight adopters. We argue that social influences can produce two observable effects: 1) discontinuities in unconditional adoption curves and 2) pattern reversals in...

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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers

Keller, Wolfgang - 2014

and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that …

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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power : Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects

Tang, Tian - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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