analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and …Recent evidence on world trade patterns reveals North-South specialization across products of the same industries and …

analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and …Recent evidence on world trade patterns reveals North-South specialization across products of the same industries and …

the pharmaceutical industry. In this proposed theoretical and empirical work, innovation from the North, followed by … oligopolistic market induced by vertical innovation, tighter IPRs may hurt both economies; while in a monopolistic competition … market induced by horizontal innovation, tighter IPRs may benefit both economies as long as the degree of IPR protection is …

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …

-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

This article considers innovation, intellectual assets and intellectual property rights (IPRs) since 1990, with … particular regard to the high-income countries. It begins with a discussion of the changing nature of innovation and the … increasing importance of intellectual assets, then continues with a discussion of IPRs and the incentives for innovation. It …

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …

innovation incentives. In particular, we examine the following causal forces behind an increase in the extent of international … generates a lower relative wage and a faster rate of innovation, in addition to a greater extent of international outsourcing …

This paper develops a product cycle model with endogenous and costly innovation, imitation, and foreign direct … resource scarcity in the South back to the North and consequently contracts innovation …