Recent empirical studies find vast industry differences in how patent protection influences innovation and growth. An … the more intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model …

We estimate the relationship between productivity and trade for a panel of countries over the period 1980 to 2000 using … instrumental-variables estimation of a productivity equation. We note that some estimates of productivity gains attributed to trade … capture instead the roles of institutions and geography. The endogeneity of trade and institutional quality is accounted for …

in the number of varieties of intermediate goods leads to positive spillovers to the final goods sector. As a result … financial markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration …

We develop a structural framework that accounts for and decomposes the relationships between trade, physical capital … corresponding trade indexes, however, we also document some notable differences between them. A counterfactual experiment simulating … the effects of trade liberalization between Canada and the EU demonstrates the capabilities of our framework. …

This paper develops a three-stage model of innovation, fixed-fee licensing and production to evaluate the welfare … effects of compulsory licensing, taking into account both static (information sharing) and dynamic (innovation incentive …

This article analyzes the effects of intellectual property rights protection on innovation in a quality-ladder model in … monopoly innovator, we show that reducing IP protection can increase the average innovation rate by regularly destroying … innovation rate, however, increases in the strength of IP protection for most market structures. In each case, we derive the …

technological capabilities of Chinese companies. China s recent innovation policy provides substantial incentives for companies to … pursue technological upgrading and internationalization strategies. For our analysis, we extend models of New New Trade …

Keywords: endogenous growth theory, new economic geography, knowledge spillovers, total factor productivity, agglomeration …