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.rm credit scores used by banks for their lending decisions, we assess how credit constraints affect export quality … export quality upgrading, credit constraints may affect the intensive margin of trade. …
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export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution … leads to higher average prices. We test the theory using detailed data for Brazilian exporters and find that the destination … countries ́first and second moment of the income distribution are important determinants of export prices. Controlling for …
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I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and joint ventures (JV) are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South trade...
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This paper investigates the determinants of export behavior among Indian manufacturing firms, focusing in particular on …&D, positively affects both firms' probability to export and firms' export volumes. We also find that imported intermediate inputs …, incorporating foreign technology, play an important role in expanding export activities of firms. On the other hand, we find that …
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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 innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the...
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This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...
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This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122389
In this paper I examine the impact of trade liberalization on labor market outcomes using a model with high- and low-skilled workers and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. I argue that IPR protection is crucial to determine labor market effects of trade liberalization in...
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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 innovation. After describing the determination of national patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320349
This paper studies the intellectual property protection in a global setting where the protection is based on the patentability requirement. When two countries with similar research efficiencies open trade with each other, the world patentability requirement will rise above the autarky levels of...
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