growth. International patent data for 40 countries from 1970 to 1985 are used to create proxies for imitation and innovation …

of foreign direct investment (FDI), considering that the latter is an international technology diffusion channel …

-linear relationship between the HDI and international trade in a panel data framework. …

Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in … have international knowledge externalities. When calibrated, the hybrid model does a surprisingly good job of generating … model implies that most of income above subsistence is made possible by international diffusion of knowledge. …

In this paper, I analyze recent findings by Coe and Helpman (1995) of trade-related international R&D spillovers. I … show generally that randomly created bilateral trade shares also give rise to large estimated international R&D spillovers …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …