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Get With the Program : Software-Driven Innovation in Traditional Manufacturing

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2015

This paper documents the increasing importance of software for successful innovation in manufacturing sectors well beyond the traditional definition of electronics and information technology. Using panel data for 229 publicly listed firms from 18 countries across four manufacturing industries...

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The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018

Since the 1990s, R&D has become less geographically concentrated, and has seen especially fast growth in emerging markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software/IT domain; the increase in foreign R&D has been largely...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...

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Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2012

Over the past two decades, the international community has struggled to deal constructively with the problem of mitigating climate change. This is considered by many to be the preeminent public policy challenge of our time, but actual policy responses have been relatively modest. This essay...

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[Rezension von: Jensen, Nathan M., Nation-states and the multinational corporation, a political economy of foreign direct investment]

Branstetter, Lee G. - In: Journal of economic literature 45 (2007) 1, pp. 190-192

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The China Shock and Employment in Portuguese Firms

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2019

This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … examine direct competition in the Portuguese market and indirect competition Portugal's largest export markets in Western … export markets, but minimal effects of direct competition in Portugal. Our findings also suggest a centrally important role …

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Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2010

data from Portugal, a country which implemented one of the most dramatic and thorough policies of entry deregulation in the … industrialized world. The impact of these major changes can be traced with a matched employer-employee database that provides …

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