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The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018

Since the 1990s, R&D has become less geographically concentrated, and has seen especially fast growth in emerging markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software/IT domain; the increase in foreign R&D has been largely...

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Offshore Profit Shifting and Domestic Productivity Measurement

Guvenen, Fatih - 2017

Official statistics display a significant slowdown in U.S. aggregate productivity growth that begins in 2004. We show how offshore profit shifting by U.S. multinational enterprises affects GDP and, thus, productivity measurement. Under international statistical guidelines, profit shifting causes...

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Export, sssembly-line FDI or FDI with the possibility of technology diffusion : optimal entry mode for multinationals

Banerjee, Tanmoyee; Mitra, Nilanjana - 2008

The paper tries to evaluate the optimal entry mode of a Multinational Company that is choosing among export, fragmented production structure with assembly-line FDI in LDC or complete production in LDC with FDI. The results show that if the plant installation cost is sufficiently high then the...

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International corporations and cross-border knowledge transfer in the semiconductor industry

Almeida, Paul; Grant, Robert M. - 1998 - March 10, 1998

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang - 2003

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...

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Multinational Firms, Technology Diffusion and Trade

Ethier, Wilfred J. - 1991

Empirical evidence indicates a close association between multinational firms and knowledge capital, a public good within the firm. We model a firm which wishes to exploit its knowledge capital abroad, but whose workers learn all the knowledge necessary for production and can defect and produce...

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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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Productivity spillovers from FDI : a firm-level cross-country analysis

Ahn, JaeBin; Aiyar, Shekhar; Presbitero, Andrea - 2024

This paper provides cross-country firm-level evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI), separately for greenfield FDI and crossborder mergers and acquisitions (M&As). The granularity of bilateral sector-level FDI datasets allows for addressing possible endogeneity...

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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014

This paper analyses the reasons behind India lagging behind East and South East Asian economies in participating in … in puts through arm's length transactions, the paper examines the reasons for India's inability to attract foreign … domestic investment environment that have made India less attractive for foreign as well as domestic investors in comparison …

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Impact of technical barriers to trade on the trade in goods in the information and communications technology sector : differentiating by aim of the regulatory measure

Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021

In this modern digital world, goods from the information and communications technology (ICT) sector are the engine of the global economy. While tariffs levied on ICT goods have been eliminated or significantly reduced since the conclusion in December 1996 of the Information Technology Agreement...

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