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More trade, less diffusion : technology transfers and the dynamic effects of import liberalization

Souza, Gustavo Moreira de; Gaetani, Ruben; Mestieri, Martí - 2024

How does international trade affect technology diffusion? We show that tariff increases in Brazil lead to more international technology transfers to Brazilian firms and more citations to foreign patents. The highest increase in citations occurs among firms located near those receiving technology...

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FDI policies and catching-up

Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2019

The dynamic effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Portugal allowed for a structural shift in exports towards technology-intensive activities. However, since 2000, several factors, largely triggered by the global financial crisis, led to a drop in industrial output along with a reduction in FDI...

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FDI technology spillovers and spatial diffusion in the People's Republic of China

Lin, Mi; Kwan, Yum-keung - 2013

This paper investigates the geographic extent of foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers and diffusion in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We employ spatial dynamic panel econometric techniques to detect total factor productivity (TFP) innovation clusters, uncover the spatial...

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FDI Technology Spillovers, Geography, and Spatial Diffusion

Lin, Mi - 2015

This paper investigates the geographic extent of FDI technology spillovers and associated spatial diffusion. By adopting a spatiotemporal autoregressive panel model as the platform of our study, the complex impact resulting from FDI penetration is separated into spatial direct and indirect...

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Openness, intermediate imports and growth

Kopp, Andreas - 2000

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Openness, intermediate imports and growth

Kopp, Andreas - 2000

We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...

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Why don't labor and capital flow between young and old countries?

Calahorrano, Lena; Meulen, Philipp an de - 2009

In this paper we investigate the twofold effect of demographics on international factor flows in a model with endogenous policy constraints on both foreign direct investment and migration. Factor price differences between industrialized and developing countries create economic incentives for...

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Jánossy elmélete az új növekedéselmélet tükrében

Tarján, Tamás - 2010

If Janossy's theory should concisely be drafted, one might say that he had been researching the "real carrier of … economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify … growth theory that have appeared in the nineties. The "real carrier of economic development" matches to the "human capital …

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The Convergence Implications of Biased Technological Diffusion

Rahman, Ahmed - 2007

This paper presents a model of a developing economy that endogenizes both technological biases and demographic trends. As knowledge diffuses from foreign R&D-producing regions, potential innovators decide which technologies to develop after considering available factors of production, and...

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On the two catching-up mechanisms in Asian development

Kunieda, Takuma; Okada, Keisuke; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 31-57

Existing studies identify two major underlying mechanisms behind East and Southeast Asia’s miraculous economic performance in the past 5 decades: accumulation and technological catching-up. This study investigates empirically the relative importance of these two mechanisms in Asian development...

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