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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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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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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science

Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2013

export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending …

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Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry

Markusen, James R. - 2009

Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not considered. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine...

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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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Heterogeneity and the FDI versus Export Decision of Japanese Manufacturers

Head, Keith - 2003

reverse this prediction. Data for 1070 large Japanese firms reveal that firms that invest abroad and export are more … productive than firms that just export. Among overseas investors, more productive firms span a wider range of host-country income …

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Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI

Beraja, Martin; Kao, Andrew; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China. First, China has a comparative advantage in this technology. It is substantially more likely to export surveillance …

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Export versus FDI

Helpman, Elhanan - 2003

aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level … heterogeneity is an important determinant of relative export and FDI flows. We use the model to derive testable empirical … predictions on the relative aggregate export and FDI sales in a given country for a given sector based both on relative costs and …

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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption

Ryan, Stephen P. - 2011

We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...

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