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Eaton, Jonathan - 2006

We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...

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Innovation and the Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements

Johnson, Matthew S.; Lipsitz, Michael; Pei, Alison - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Worker mobility across firms can enhance innovation by spreading knowledge, but such mobility may also hinder … innovation by making firms reluctant to invest in R&D. A common way that firms limit workers' mobility is with noncompete … agreements (NCAs). We examine how the legal enforceability of NCAs affects innovation, as measured by patenting, using data on …

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Tracking Firm Use of AI in Real Time : A Snapshot from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey

Bonney, Kathryn; Breaux, Cory; Buffington, Cathy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, on an employment-weighted basis, is U-shaped in firm age. Common uses of AI include marketing automation, virtual agents … reductions in employment due to AI use. Many firms undergo organizational changes to accommodate AI, particularly by training … higher incidence of employment expansion compared to other businesses. The most common reason for non-adoption is the …

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Foreign Technology Adoption as a Flying Propeller

Hu, Yunfang; Kunieda, Takuma; Nishimura, Kazuo; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption, incorporating adoption barriers, international technology spillover, and relative price advantages. A higher FDI conversion efficacy, a lower adoption barrier, or a stronger...

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How Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect Productivity Growth

Keller, Wolfgang - 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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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

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Growing by Leaps and Inches : Creative Destruction, Real Cost Reduction, and Inching Up

Darby, Michael R. - 2002

Most firms achieve perfective progress, incrementally improving commodities or productivity. But technological progress is concentrated in a few firms achieving metamorphic progress: forming or transforming industries with technological breakthroughs (e.g., biotechnology, lasers, semiconductors,...

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International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - 2001

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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Technological Diffusion, Convergence, and Growth

Barro, Robert J. - 1995

. Followers converge toward the leaders because copying is cheaper than innovation over some range. A tendency for copying costs …

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How High are the Giants' Shoulders : An Empirical Assessment of Knowledge Spillovers and Creative Destruction in a Model of Economic Growth

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1993

The pace of industrial innovation and growth is shaped by many forces that interact in complicated ways. Profit …

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