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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation

Benz, Sebastian - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Complexity and Multinational Firms

Yang, Zhenzeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines theoretically the impact of host intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and complexity on MNEs' investment decision to the South in order to explain why large amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to low IPR protecting China and other emerging economies....

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Foreign ownership, sales to multinationals, and firm efficiency: The Case of Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam

Kinda, Tidiane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Using a one-step stochastic frontier model for five developing countries (Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam), we show that foreign firms benefit from a better investment climate, which significantly explains why they are more efficient than local firms. Unlike former studies,...

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Technology Transfer And Technology Policy In A Developing Country

Ray, Saon - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 2, pp. 371-396

The transfer of technology from developed to the developing countries plays an important role in meeting the … technology from the developed world. At the same time however, such a regime impedes the spread of the technology within the … developing country through spillovers. This paper examines the welfare effects of technology policy of a developing country …

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FDI inflows and outflows, intellectual property rights, and productivity growth

Sasatra, Sudsawasd; Santi, Chaisrisawatsuk - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

Using panel data of 57 countries during the period of 1995-2012, this study investigates the impact of intellectual property rights (IPR) processes on productivity growth. The IPR processes are decomposed into three stages, innovation process, commercialization process, and IPR protection...

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Optimal intellectual property rights protection during an international health emergency

Brown, Drusilla K.; Norman, George - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 6, pp. 1009-1016

We analyze policy options during an international health emergency to provide consumers in least developed countries access to patented life-extending pharmaceuticals. Reliance on property rights exhaustion is shown to be insufficiently flexible and costly to implement. By contrast, the optimal...

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Employment at multinational enterprises (MNEs) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior...

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Firm-Level Capabilities and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Kenyan Manufacturing Industry

Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm-level capabilities in human capital development. It undertakes a detailed descriptive comparison of human capital and other firm-level capabilities generated by both foreign and...

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