intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A … own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small …

We study the gains from trade in an economy with oligopolistic competition, firm heterogeneity, and innovation … domestic sales. Thus the overall effect of trade on markups is pro-competitive and a key source of the associated welfare gains …. In addition to markups, selection and innovation provide additional channels through which the trade-induced effect on …

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … provide a formula to decompose the mechanism. The new insight we provide is that market concentration can be a welfare … increases welfare via productivity improvements. In the calibrated version of the model we show that a trade-induced increase in …

enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A … own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small …

We study the gains from trade in an economy with oligopolistic competition, firm heterogeneity, and innovation … domestic sales. Thus the overall effect of trade on markups is pro-competitive and a key source of the associated welfare gains …. In addition to markups, selection and innovation provide additional channels through which the trade-induced effect on …

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … provide a formula to decompose the mechanism. The new insight we provide is that market concentration can be a welfare … increases welfare via productivity improvements. In the calibrated version of the model we show that a trade-induced increase in …

enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A … own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small …

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … innovation. The results show significant positive correlation between the entry of FDI in a sector and the more direct measures …

Does FDI affect innovation, productivity growth, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … spillovers on process innovation. These effects do not depend on the local firms’ distance to the productivity frontier. The …