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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships

Goh, Ai Ting - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production vary inversely with their technological effort....

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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships

GOH, Ai-Ting - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2004

This paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries(DC)' firms to undertake costly technology transfer to their developing countries(LDC)' suppliers whose cost of production varies inversely with their technological effort. When the incumbent supplier's...

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Technology Transfer, Merger and Joint Venture: A Comparative Welfare Analysis

Kabiraj, Tarun; Roy, Prithvijit - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 442-466

We consider a framework where initially a foreign firm and a few domestic firms are competing in a homogenous product local market. The foreign firm has a lower marginal cost of production relative to the domestic firms. We study then possibility of a bilateral agreement between the foreign firm...

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Technology Transfer and Spillovers in International Joint Ventures

Müller, Thomas; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

It is often argued that multinationals are reluctant to transfer technology due to the fear of spillovers. We show that … may agree to enter a joint venture even though this gives rise to spillovers. Surprisingly, we find that a joint venture … is sometimes not in the interest of a host country, despite the prospect of spillovers. …

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Strategic Intellectual Property Protection Policy and North-South Technology Transfer

Naghavi, Alireza - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2003

I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and joint ventures (JV) are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South trade...

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International Joint Venture and the Technology of the Future

Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Kabiraj, Tarun - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2001

We consider the possibility of forming a joint venture (JV) between a local firm and a foreign multinational in a situation when there is no current gain from such an arrangement. In the presence of policy uncertainty and threat of entry, a current period formation of JV with the multinational,...

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A general analysis of sequential merger games with an application to cross-border mergers

Salvo, Alberto - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper seeks to uncover why the pattern of equilibria in sequential merger games of a certain type is similar across a fairly wide class of models much studied in the literature. By developing general conditions characterising each element of the set of possible equilibria, I show that the...

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Cross Border M&A: Who Buys Whom When Market Size and Technology Levels Differ?

GRÜNFELD, Leo A. Grunfeld; SANNA-RANDACCIO, FRANCESCA - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e … - 2009

Global FDI activities are dominated by cross border acquisitions, especially between industrialized countries. In small industrialized countries, there is a growing concern of losing leading technological firms to large foreign companies through acquisitions. In this paper, we identify under...

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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer

Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

can protect their technology by exporting or risk spillovers by undertaking FDI to avoid tariffs. A stringent IPR regime …

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Technology Transfer and Spillovers in International Joint Ventures

Müller, Thomas; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

structure in an international joint venture. In contrast to existing arguments, we show that spillovers must not always have … venture is mutually beneficial. Surprisingly, however, we find that despite the prospect of spillovers, a joint venture is …

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