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Foreign Direct Investment and R&D offshoring

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006

causes a relocation of R&D activities if intrafirm communication is sufficiently well developed, external spillovers are …

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Endogenous Spillovers and Incentives to Innovate

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 1999

We present a new approach to endogenizing technological spillovers. Firms choose continuous levels of a cost …-standing debate on the effects of the mode of competition on innovation incentives. We show that incentives to acquire spillovers are … stronger and incentives to prevent spillovers are weaker under quantity competition than under price competition. As a result …

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Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?

Lutz, Stefan; Talavera, Oleksandr - In: Economic Change and Restructuring 37 (2004) 2, pp. 77-98

All countries are eager to attract as much foreign direct investments (FDI) as possible. At the same time FDI may have not only positive, but also negative economic effects for receiving countries. Positive effects are associated with technology transfer, efficient allocation of resources, and...

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The Organization of Supply: a Vertical Equilibrium Analysis

Levy, Nadav - Econometric Society - 2004

spillovers of technical or operational know-how between projects and to savings in the setup costs on physical capital. The model … supplier network however typically decreases when the spillovers are stronger. These findings provide an insight to the …

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Global Competition, Technology Spillovers and Firm Dynamics:

Ahn, Sanghoon - Econometric Society - 2004

structures, by encouraging their innovative activities, by stimulating technology spillovers, and by selecting more efficient … competition, technology spillovers, and firm dynamics in Korea. This research aims to contribute to understanding the micro …

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FDI Spillovers and Time since Foreign Entry

Merlevede, Bruno; Schoors, Koen; Spatareanu, Mariana - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 108-126

This study investigates the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of local firms. In contrast to existing literature our empirical approach does not require FDI to have immediate or permanent effects. We find that foreign entry initially negatively affects local...

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Neighbors and the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations: Evidence of international knowledge diffusion?

Bahar, Dany; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar A. - In: Journal of International Economics 92 (2014) 1, pp. 111-123

The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that knowledge decays strongly with distance. In this paper we document that the probability that a product is added to a country's export basket is, on average, 65% larger if a neighboring country is a successful exporter of that same product. For...

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Trade, demand spillovers and industrialization : The emerging global middle class in perspective

Desdoigts, Alain; Jaramillo, Fernando - HAL - 2006

In this paper, we investigate international demand spillovers brought about by a global middle class and their impact … demand spillovers depends upon asymmetries in domestic income distribution, labor efficiency, and labor force size ; that is …

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Multinationals, technological incompatibilities and spillovers

Carluccio, Juan; Fally, Thibault - HAL - 2008

Empirical studies provide evidence of positive spillovers from multinational firms to upstream suppliers coupled with … negative spillovers to firms in the same industry. This paper shows that these empirical regularities can be rationalized in a …

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Explaining Russian manufacturing exports: Firm characteristics and external conditions

Rosa, Donato De - HAL - 2006

This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting...

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