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Chapter 8. Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, and the World Trade Organization
Saggi, K. - 2016
This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect national incentives for patent protection? What is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023447
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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Global sourcing of heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2015
This paper investigates the role of firm productivity in drawing firm boundaries in global sourcing. Our analysis … focuses on how productivity affects the allocation of ownership rights between the headquarter of a firm and an intermediate …. domestic). Unlike previous work, we allow for a fully flexible productivity effect with varying magnitude and sign across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476678
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Learning how to export
Segerstrom, Paul Stephen; Stepanok, Ignat - 2012
In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671658
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Competition with multinational firms : theory and evidence
Muraközy, Balázs; Russ, Katheryn Niles - 2015 - Preliminary
Do multinational firms wield more market power than their domestic counterparts? Using Hungarian firm-level data between 1993 and 2007, we find that markups are 19 percent higher for foreign-owned firms than for domestically owned firms. Moreover, markups for domestically owned firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284902
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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892151
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Sales and markup dispersion : theory and empirics
Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter; Parenti, Mathieu - 2018
We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955531
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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation
Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed by firms is fundamental and the extent to which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189433
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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation
Sasan, Bakhtiari; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed by firms is fundamental and the extent to which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731013