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trade-led economic growth across countries. Data of the Balassa index, which captures a country's revealed comparative … exporting high-technology as opposed to traditional or low-technology goods. The findings are robust to the presence of various …
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In order to investigate the effectiveness of science and technology industrial parks (STIPs), this study examines data …
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I investigate the long-run implications of trade and technology diffusion through trade, when firms are heterogeneous … and trade is costly. The paper integrates firm heterogeneity and trade into product innovation growth models from … endogenous growth theory. Two specifications of the R&D process are considered. In the first, R&D uses labor and intermediate …
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We investigate what happens to hours worked after a positive shock to technology, using the aggregate technology series …
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-enhancing investments (technology). Empirically, less developed countries feature higher distortions and larger dispersion in firm …-thirds of cross-country labor productivity differences. Both selection and technology channels are important. Variation in …
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This paper reviews the literature on the economics of intellectual property rights (IPR), with a particular focus on the main industrial property rights of patents and trade marks. Intellectual property rights arise from the legal protection accorded to certain inventions or creations. We begin...
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...
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This paper presents a History Friendly Model which addresses the issue of the bifurcation in technological stylesʺ between US and Britain during the nineteenth century. The model aims at gaining a better understanding of the micro-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in...
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Did breakthroughs in core processes during the Industrial Revolution tend to generate further innovations in downstream technologies? Here a theoretical model examines the effect of a political shock on a non-innovating society in which there is high potential willingness to cooperate. The...
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Starting with the premise that technological innovation and economic growth are interactive and mutually reinforcing …
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