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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...

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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...

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

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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 …

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Global Sourcing of Heterogeneous Firms : Theory and Evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2015

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Firm Heterogeneity, Trade, Multinationals, and Growth : A Quantitative Evaluation

Wu, Tommy T. - 2015

In this paper I study and quantify the long-run effects of openness to trade and multinational production in a model of endogenous innovation with firm heterogeneity. When trade is liberalized, some multinationals find it more profitable to export and forgo the cost of maintaining capacities in...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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