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We study the incentive that a government in the South has to protect the intellectual property rights of Northern firms, and the consequences of the decision taken by the South for welfare in the North and for efficiency of the world equilibrium. We conduct our analysis in the context of a...
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We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization. Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products. Both...
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This paper makes the case that purposive, profit-seeking investments in knowledge play a critical role in the long …
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We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these … maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation …
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In this paper, I develop a model of dynamic comparative advantage based on endogenous innovation. Firms in each of two … and scarcity of natural resources, will specialize relatively in industrial innovation and in the production of high … subsidies and trade policies on the long-run rates of innovation in trade partner countries and on the long-run pattern of trade …
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We construct a model of the product cycle featuring endogenous innovation and endogenous technology transfer …
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We develop a multi-country, dynamic general equilibrium model of product innovation and international trade to study …
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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …
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pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and show, to the contrary, that the pace of innovation often is faster in a world …
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