We build a growth model with status preference to explore the effects of patent protection on innovation, inequality … innovation. In addition, the effect of patent protection on social welfare is non-monotonic when the strength of status …

This study develops a Schumpeterian growth model to analyze the effects of different patent instruments on innovation …. We first analyze patent breadth that captures the traditional positive effect of patent rights on innovation. Then, we … assigned to incumbents reduces entrants' incentives for innovation. This aspect of blocking patents captures the recently …

This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current … debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles innovation. We analyze the effects of patent protection in the form … of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric effects on …

This study develops an R&D-based growth model that features both vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light … on the current debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles innovation. Specifically, we analyze the growth … ladder. We show that patent protection has asymmetric effects on vertical innovation (i.e., quality improvement) and …

We develop and estimate a model of technological innovation and its contribution to growth at home and abroad …

innovation at home. For example, about half of U.S. productivity growth derives form foreign technology yet U.S. inventors earn …

quantifies spillovers from high technology imports from developed countries to domestic imitation and innovation in both … indirectly, through reverse-engineering of these goods which contributes to domestic imitation and innovation. This paper first … developed and developing countries. It then considers the importance of foreign and domestic innovation to real per capita GDP …

. Free trade generally results in a positive feedback effect between Southern imitation and Northern innovation yielding a …An endogenous growth model is developed demonstrating both static and dynamic gains from trade for developing nations … due to the beneficial effects of trade on imitation and technological diffusion. The concept of learning-to-learn in both …