Showing 1 - 10 of 1,243
We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473353
industry from 1991 to 1996. Plant-level decisions on R&D, physical capital investment, entry, and exit are integrated in a …This paper develops and estimates an industry equilibrium model of manufacturing plants in the Korean electric motor … physical investment, and plant scrap value distribution. Knowledge spillovers are essential to explaining the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938702
technology acquisition. In our research setting, the most common way to exercise the option post-CVC investment is via technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457244
dissemination of academic science in industry. For the second, we find that reputation per se, apart from the production of … commercializable science, impacts industry's use of science, especially for that science with high commercial potential, implying that … the commercializable science of less prominent universities is disproportionately overlooked by industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512116
foreign direct investment; (iii) the spatial distribution of technological knowledge, and (iv) other issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470145
for skilled workers during the 1980s, the sources of this trend remain a puzzle. This paper examines whether investment … and adoption of skill-biased technology have contributed to within-industry skill upgrading using plant-level data from … Chile. Using semiparametric and parametric approaches, I investigate whether plant-level measures of capital and investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470897
We survey research on the relationship between technology and trade. We begin with the old literature, which treated the state of technology as exogenous and asked how changes in technology affect the trade pattern and welfare. Recent research has attempted to endogenize technological progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473978
Much recent work has suggested that endogenous technological change tends to reinforce the position of the leading nations. Yet from time to time this leadership role shifts. We suggest a mechanism that explains this pattern of -leapfrogging- as a response to occasional major changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475103
intermediate goods and their investment in domestic technologies. We establish sufficient conditions under which the steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480411
The importance of new technologies derives from the fact that they spread across many different users and uses, as well as different geographic regions. The diffusion of technological improvements, across producers within a country and across international borders, is critical for long run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481321