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This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...
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examining R&D internationalization within a newly-industrializing economy, a prime example of which is Taiwan, and focuses … the literature on R&D internationalization and globalization, based upon which we emphasize the significance of first … corporate R&D in Taiwan and to systematically examine the determinants of the R&D intensity of foreign affiliates at industry …
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). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …
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Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...
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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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How global are the gains from innovation? When firms operate production plants in multiple countries, technological …-2008. Our estimates indicate that innovation increases performance at firm locations beyond the innovating site: the median U … operations understate multinationals' gain from innovation, and revealing a spatial disconnect between the costs and potential …
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The decline in the costs of multinational production (MP) has led some countries to specialize in innovation and others … advantage and home market effects (HME) that arise from the interaction between increasing returns to innovation and … further specialize in innovation …
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globalization. Globalization leads to better matches for all southern workers but only for the best northern workers. As a result …, we show that globalization increases wage inequality in the South but not necessarily in the North. We also study how … globalization affects the size distribution of firms and the patterns of consumption and trade in the global economy …
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This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific … the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more …
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We study the innovation and diffusion of technology at the industry level. We derive the full dynamic paths of an …
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