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Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the...

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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy : A Historical Perspective

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, researchers, and journalists have made comparisons to World War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the Allied war effort, including significant investments in...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...

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The Export Performance of Swedish and U.S. Multinationals

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1986

While the U.S. and Sweden both lost more than 20 per cent of their shares of world and developed countries' exports of …. These developments suggest that the declining trade shares of the U.S. and Sweden were not due mainly to deterioration in … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment : Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1997

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

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What Do Rich Countries Trade with Each Other? R&D and the Composition of U.S. and Swedish Trade

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1989

the importance of trade. Sweden and the United States possess similar factor endowments and have converged in overall …

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Multinational Firms and Manufactured Exports from Developing Countries

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1988

. Multinationals from the United States, Japan and Sweden have all increased their shares of LDC exports of manufactures since the mid …

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U.S. and Swedish Direct Investment and Exports

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1987

Overseas production in a country by affiliates of Swedish and U.S. firms rarely appears to displace exports from the two home countries and in most cases either has no effect or tends to increase home country exports. The positive effect on Swedish exports is evident not only with respect to...

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