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Innovations in consumer products frequently rely on technological advances across multiple tiers in a supply chain. Considering the consumer market demand and downstream investment conditions as input, we model a game in a two-tier supply chain where downstream firms choose to adopt different...
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Countries compete internationally to attract investment from multinational enterprises (MNEs). Policy-makers hope that they bring superior technology to the host country and boost domestic activity. Because technology is often factor-biased, there are distributional effects to consider beyond...
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The paper explores the long run evolution of Italy's performance in technological innovation as a function of international technology transfer, reconstructing the different phases and dimensions of Italian innovative activity, tracking the transfer of foreign technological knowledge through a...
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Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in particular, are essential for explaining a number of empirical regularities about growth and development. Foremost among these is that many countries appear to share a common long...
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The principal objective of this paper is to ascertain whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has statistically significant effects on host countries' economic performance, such as total factor productivity. Such effects are often referred to as FDI externalities or spillover effects. This paper...
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This paper investigates the geographic extent of foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers and diffusion in … spatial dimensions of FDI spillovers. Our empirical results show that FDI presence (measured as employment share) in a … location. Nevertheless, these negative intra-regional spillovers are found to be locally bounded. Domestic private firms enjoy …
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spillovers and technological distance between sector-countries on further knowledge flows. For this purpose, we develop a … indicate that knowledge accumulated in the output sector-country and - in some cases - external spillovers are key in …-countries shows that spillovers are more useful for the generation of knowledge flows if the input sector-country is low-tech. Low …
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global production network properties are directly related to size of the local and global technology spillovers, (ii) the … local and free global spillovers have, in general, a statistically significant and positive effect on technology diffusion …, (iii) on the contrary, the controlled global technology spillovers captured by the network betweenness have, in general, a …
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This paper investigates the geographic extent of FDI technology spillovers and associated spatial diffusion. By … spatially partitioned summary measures is produced to identify and to quantify FDI spillovers from different channels with … regions through knowledge spillovers that have wider geographic scope. Negative market stealing effect nevertheless has no …
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knowledge spillovers as measured by patent citations since the 1990s. This rise is mostly accounted for by an increase in … estimate the causal effect of innovation induced by international spillovers on sectoral output per worker and total factor …
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