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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2012
The authors analyze the role of international technological diffusion for firm-level technological innovations in several developing countries. Their findings show that, after controlling for firm, industry, and country characteristics, exporting and importing activities are important channels...
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On the Quantity and Quality of Knowledge : The Impact of Openness and Foreign Research and Development on North-North and North-South Technology Spillovers
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2013
Knowledge accumulation means either new knowledge (an increase in its quality), greater access to existing knowledge (an increase in its quantity), or both. The authors examine the relative contribution of these two components of knowledge to total factor productivity (TFP) for North-North and...
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Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries : Unilateral and Multilateral Policy Options
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Maskus, Keith E.; Saggi, Kamal - 2013
The authors analyze national and international policy options to encourage the international transfer of technology, distinguishing between four major channels of such transfer: trade in products, trade in knowledge, foreign direct investment, and intra-national and international movement of...
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Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Economies : Progress, Problems, and the Promise
Shah, Anwar - 2013
The author discusses the revolution in public sector thinking that is transforming the public sectors of developing and transition countries. Countries are reconsidering their fiscal systems and searching for the right balance between central government control and decentralized governance....
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Emissions Trading with Offset Markets and Free Quota Allocations
Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Strand, Jon - 2013
This paper studies interactions between a "policy bloc's" emissions quota market and an offset market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy "fringe" of countries (such as for the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol). Policy-bloc firms enjoy free quota...
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Cooperation and Reciprocity in Carbon Sequestration Contracts
Cordero Salas, Paula - 2013
contracts. The optimal contract is derived as a result of the optimizing actions of purely self-interested agents, and agents … that act according to social or egoistic preferences. The analysis finds that buyers' preferences do not affect contract …
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Triggers of Contract Breach : Contract Design, Shocks, or Institutions?
Nose, Manabu - 2014
This paper constructs a large contract-level data set to examine factors that trigger breach of foreign investment … contract. Furthermore, although investors' bargaining power becomes obsolete as contracts mature, contracts can be designed to … mitigate the risk of breach of contract by involving multilateral organizations and creating buffers to absorb commodity price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560843
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Quality Contingent Contracts : Evidence from Tanzania's Coffee Market
Mahdi, Shireen - 2012
production practices. Three contract types are studied: spot contracts, contingent contracts with product grading and contingent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557055
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Ideas and Innovation in East Asia
Brahmbhatt, Milan; Hu, Albert - 2012
The generation, diffusion, absorption and application of new technology, knowledge or ideas are crucial drivers of development. This paper surveys the diverse approaches to innovation adopted by East Asian economies, the problems faced and outcomes achieved, as well as possible policy lessons....
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Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and knowledge
Glachant, Matthieu; Dussaux, Damien; M??ni??re, Yann - 2013
Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of...
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