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This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...
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changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor …
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International trade and migration are two important dimensions of globalization. Although governments have been very …
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We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider … a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for …
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This paper studies the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights (IPRs) after the signing of the TRIPS on …
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The global process of strengthening and harmonization of intellectual property rights (IPRs) systems has been intensified in the last twenty five years by the signing of trade agreements (TAs) that include chapters with intellectual property (IP) provisions and other non-trade-related issues....
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Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The first mechanism we discuss is price based regulation of...
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endogenous policy constraints on both foreign direct investment and migration. Factor price differences between industrialized … and developing countries create economic incentives for migration to developed countries and for capital flows to less … factor flows. -- Demographic Change ; Political Economy ; Migration ; Foreign Direct Investment …
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compensate the losers the government is assumed to introduce unemployment benefits (UB). These benefits are financed by either a …
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migration frictions that stem from China's household registration system (hukou). I rst provide reduced-form evidence that input … consequences. In this process, I develop a novel measure of migration frictions associated with the hukou system. …
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