Trade Induced Technical Bias and Wage Inequalities: a Theory of Defensive Innovation

Mathias Thoenig and Thierry Verdier

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Abstract: This paper considers a dynamic North South model of international trade and innovations in which firms can endogenously bias the direction of technological change. We show that, when there is a differential degree of protection of property rights between the two regions, innovating firms face a trade off between delocalization in South and more secure property rights in North.

Keywords: INNOVATIONS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2000
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