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International Trade Agreements : Laboratories of Innovation or Propellers of Fragmentation?

Lewis, Meredith Kolsky - 2022

The original ‘building blocks or stumbling blocks’ debate considered the positive and negative impacts on the multilateral trading system in the form of the World Trade Organization (WTO) of free trade agreements (FTAs) at a time when FTAs were primarily bilateral and/or regional. This...

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that firms who invest in the state-of-the-art technologies...

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Trade Reforms, Competition, and Innovation in the Philippines

Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2012

liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and … liberalization has significant positive impact on innovation through competition.Given the crucial role of competition in the … relationship between trade liberalization and innovation, it is important for the government to maintain the contestability of …

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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...

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Micro Moments Database for Cross-Country Analysis of ICT, Innovation, and Economic Outcomes

Bartelsman, Eric; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017

This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...

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Defensive Innovations

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...

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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing...

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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269463

Offshoring, employment and wages

Bramucci, Alessandro - 2016

This paper reviews the debate on the economic effect of the international fragmentation of production, also known as "offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in five European countries (Germany, Spain, France,...

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Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal ExchangeRate Regimes

Singh, Rajesh Kumar; Lahiri, Amartya; Végh, Carlos A. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

This paper revisits the issue of the optimal exchange rate regime in a flexible price environment. The key innovation is that we analyze this question in the context of environments where only a fraction of agents participate in asset market transactions (i.e., asset markets are segmented)....

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