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INNOVATION UNDER THE THREAT OF DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT
Roy, Soma; Acharyya, Rajat - In: Journal of Economic Development 34 (2009) 1, pp. 81-98
We examine the implication of direct and indirect foreign competition on domestic innovation decision. In most of the … innovation by the home firm will be discouraged at high tariffs under the threat of DFI. Again at low tariff rates exports by the … foreign firm make market competition more intense and reduce the incentive for innovation. Hence the home firm always (never …
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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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Technology licensing in mixed oligopoly
Chen, Yi-Wen; Yang, Ya-Po; Wang, Leonard F.S.; Wu, Shih-Jye - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 31 (2014) C, pp. 193-204
We develop a mixed oligopoly model with one public firm and two private firms to explore the licensing strategy considered by the innovated private firm. The major findings of our paper are that: firstly, if the patentee licenses the public firm under some plausible parametric range, the public...
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Behaviour of Belgian firms in the context of globalisation : lessons from the conference on “International Trade : Threats and Opportunities in a Globalised World”
Dhyne, E.; Dresse, L.; Fuss, C.; Piette, Ch. - In: Economic Review (2011) I, pp. 73-88
The article summarises the main lessons of the Bank’s 2010 conference which focused on international trade and foreign direct investment. The research is based on a microeconomic approach to the behaviour of Belgian firms, with reference to developments in the scientific literature on the...
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Chapter 33 Culture in International Trade
Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1141-1182). 2006
Cultural allegiances whether inherited, imposed or chosen, affect economic activity. Many of these cultural layers – ethnic background, religion, language, ideological orientation, and artistic interests – spill over national boundaries. Cultural ideas travel the world along many routes from...
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Comparing Sectoral FDI Incentives: Comparative Advantages and Market Opportunities
Qiu, Larry D. - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 4 (2003) 1, pp. 151-176
In this paper we closely examine the implications of comparative advantage for foreign direct investment (FDI) incentives. Particularly, we find that the host country¡¯s comparative advantage sector is more attractive to inward FDI than its comparative disadvantage sector. This finding is...
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Competing back for foreign direct investment
Zhai, Weifeng - In: Economic Modelling 39 (2014) C, pp. 146-150
. Second, as a result, policy competition does not change regional welfare. Lastly, the equilibrium policy could be either a …
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Governance, foreign direct investment and domestic welfare
Maiti, Dibyendu; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 27 (2013) C, pp. 406-415
, affects inward FDI and domestic welfare. Whether good governance in the domestic country attracts FDI depends on the way it … affects the marketing and distribution costs. The effect of good governance is ambiguous on domestic welfare and depends on …
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Should TPP be formed? : on the potential economic, governance, and conflict-reducing impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - In: East Asian economic review 20 (2016) 3, pp. 279-309
welfare estimates that treat all firms within an industry as homogeneous with more recent CGE analyses that allow firms …
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Why Is Open Regionalism Not Always Good?
Loke, Wai-Heng; Winters, L. Alan - In: Journal of Economic Integration 27 (2012), pp. 437-465
When the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) formally adopted the principle of “open regionalism” (OR) in its trade liberalization in 1991, many were optimistic that this approach suggested the bloc as a stepping stone toward global free trade. This optimistic view was reinforced by the...
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