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Technology Adoption and Factor Proportions in Open Economies : Theory and Evidence From the Global Computer Industry / Cusolito, Ana P.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Cusolito, Ana P.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central processing units.
- Codes.
- Components.
- Computer industry.
- Computers.
- Data processing.
- Data processing equipment.
- Digital.
- E-Business.
- Economic Growth.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Electrical machinery.
- Equipment.
- Free Trade.
- ICT Policy and Strategies.
- Industry.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- Innovations.
- International Economics & Trade.
- International trade.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Markup.
- Media.
- Net exports.
- Open economies.
- Private Sector Development.
- Processors.
- Property rights.
- San.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Technological change.
- Technology Industry.
- Local Subjects:
- Central processing units.
- Codes.
- Components.
- Computer industry.
- Computers.
- Data processing.
- Data processing equipment.
- Digital.
- E-Business.
- Economic Growth.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Electrical machinery.
- Equipment.
- Free Trade.
- ICT Policy and Strategies.
- Industry.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- Innovations.
- International Economics & Trade.
- International trade.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Markup.
- Media.
- Net exports.
- Open economies.
- Private Sector Development.
- Processors.
- Property rights.
- San.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Technological change.
- Technology Industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (47 pages)
- Other Title:
- Technology Adoption And Factor Proportions In Open Economies
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2009
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Theories of international trade assume that all countries use similar and exogenous technologies in the production of any good. This paper relaxes this assumption. The marriage of literatures on biased technical change and trade yields a tractable theory, which predicts that differences in factor endowments and intellectual property rights bias technical change toward particular factor intensities, and thus unit factor input requirements can vary across economies. Using data on net exports of a single industry, computers, intellectual property rights and factor endowments for 73 countries during 1980-2000, the paper shows that once technological choices are considered, countries with different factor endowments can become net exporters of the same product.
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