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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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The Role of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime for Foreign Investors in Post-Socialist Economies

Schnellbächer, Benedikt; Stephan, Johannes - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2009

for technological catch-up development in Central East Europe via technology and knowledge transfer. By use of a unique …

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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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Globalization and its disconnects.

Teitel, Simon - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2001

Globalization, defined in economic terms as the phenomenon of increased integration of the world economy, generates strong reactions due to some negative effects of the growth of international trade, the internationalization of industrial production, and unrestricted cross-border capital flows,...

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India's Reform of External Sector Policies and Future Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Srinivasan, T.N. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic countries. Despite improvement over the past in export...

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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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Optimal Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Humanitarian Assistance during and International Health Emergency

Brown, Drusilla K.; Norman, George - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2004

We analyze policy options during an international health emergency to provide consumers in least developed countries access to patented life-extending pharmaceuticals. We show that a properly specified tariff against reexports achieves optimal price dispersion and is shown to depend on the...

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Optimal Intellectual Property Rights Exhaustion and Humanitarian Assistance during a National Health Emergency

Brown, Drusilla K.; Norman, George - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2003

We analyze policy options during an international health emergency to provide consumers in least developed countries access to patented life-extending pharmaceuticals. We show that a properly specified tariff against re?xports achieves optimal price dispersion and is shown to depend on the...

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