This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …

The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely … to local firms. We investigate whether FDI spillovers influence different phases of the innovation process (from decision …

market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare … ; Innovation ; Trade Costs ; Welfare …This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …

show that national welfare is an inverted U-shaped function of tariffs. There exists a tariff threshold, below which the … oligopolistic good has a higher marginal effect on welfare). Competition policies that target the competitive sector lower the …

We show that the standard concertina result for tariff reforms – i.e. lowering the highest tariff increases welfare … tariff is lowered is not capital intensive. If the concertina reform lowers welfare it lowers market access as well, thereby …

This contribution provides a cost-benefit analysis in a partial equilibrium framework to investigate the welfare … the welfare gains from the introduction of an NTM are explored. The results depend on consumer awareness and information …