Impacts of the Japanese patent system on productivity growth (1999)
Keith E. Maskus, Christine Mcdaniel
Abstract: We investigate empirically how the Japanese patent system has affected postwar growth in Japanese total factor productivity. The system has been criticized for several reasons, including...
A Decomposition of North American Trade Growth since NAFTA
Russell Hillberry, Christine McDaniel
Total U.S. trade with NAFTA partners has increased 78 percent in real terms since 1993-U.S. Mexico trade alone is up 141 percent-compared to a 43 percent increase in U.S. trade with the rest of the...