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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

challenges for future empirical research, as well as the need for additional data on technology and innovation. …

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Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

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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The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U.S. schools during 1981-1999. Faculty employment grows at 0.6 percent per year, compared with growth of 4.9 percent in industrial researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is...

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The Geography and Channels of Diffusion at the World's Technology Frontier

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global spillovers favor convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of countries with persistently different levels of income per...

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Trade and Transmission of Technology

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

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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Estimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports

Keller, Wolfgang; Acharya, Ram C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Economists emphasize two channels through which import liberalization affects productivity, one operating between and the other within firms. According to the former, import competition triggers market share reallocations between domestic firms with different technological capabilities...

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Technology Transfer through Imports

Keller, Wolfgang; Acharya, Ram C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

While there is general agreement that technology differences must figure prominently in any successful account of the cross-country income variation, not much is known on the source of these technology differences. This paper examines cross-country income differences in terms of factor...

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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was excessively focused on physical capital investments...

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How Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect Productivity Growth

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

This paper examines the evidence on technology diffusion through trade in differentiated intermediate goods. Because intermediates are invented through costly research and development (R&D) investments, employing imported intermediates implies an implicit sharing of the technology that was...

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Institutions, Technology, and Trade

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We study the importance of technology and institutions in determining the size of markets in five different countries and fifteen different German states. The setting of 19th century Europe presents a unique opportunity to address this issue, since it witnessed fundamental change in both...

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