Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China: A Political Economy Approach (2007)
Lee G. Branstetter, Robert C. Feenstra, Acknowledgements We, Chen Chun-lai, Wen Hai, David Li, ...
We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct investment, against the losses incurred by state-owned enterprises due to such...
Japan's current political economy (2004)
Branstetter, Lee, Makin, John, Schoppa, Len, Curtis, Gerald, Patrick, Hugh
This symposium, cosponsored by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University, combined the expertise of economists and political...
Japan's current political economy (2004)
Branstetter, Lee, Makin, John, Schoppa, Len, Curtis, Gerald, Patrick, Hugh
This symposium, cosponsored by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University, combined the expertise of economists and political...
Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international "spillovers" of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel...
Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international "spillovers" of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IS JAPAN’S INNOVATIVE CAPACITY IN DECLINE? (2003)
Lee Branstetter, Lee Branstetter, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Jel No. I
This paper was prepared for the volume on Structural Impediments to Growth that is being edited by Magnus Blomstrom, Jennifer Corbett, Fumio Hayashi and Anil Kashyap for the NBER and will be...
Has Japan's innovative capacity declined? (2002)
Branstetter, Lee, Nakamura, Yoshiaki
This paper examines Japan's R&D performance since the early 1980s using several complementary modes of analysis. First, we examine evidence from aggregate economic statistics concerning changes in...
Has Japan's innovative capacity declined? (2002)
Branstetter, Lee, Nakamura, Yoshiaki
This paper examines Japan's R&D performance since the early 1980s using several complementary modes of analysis. First, we examine evidence from aggregate economic statistics concerning changes in...
Intellectual property rights and prospects for U.S.-Japan cooperation in Asia (2002)
Weinstein, David, Rapp, William, Takenaka, Toshiko, Myers, Robert, Branstetter, Lee, Milhaupt, Curtis, ...
Technological progress and increased globalization have raised the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) issues. As countries at the technological frontier, the United States and Japan...
Intellectual property rights and prospects for U.S.-Japan cooperation in Asia (2002)
Weinstein, David, Rapp, William, Takenaka, Toshiko, Myers, Robert, Branstetter, Lee, Milhaupt, Curtis, ...
Technological progress and increased globalization have raised the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) issues. As countries at the technological frontier, the United States and Japan...
Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international "spillovers" of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel...
Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international "spillovers" of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1996.
Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley
This paper examines how technology transfer within U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR reforms undertaken by 16 countries over the 1982-1999 period. Analysis of detailed...
Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence
Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, Kamal Saggi
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a...
Japanese Research Consortia: A Microeconometric Analysis of Industrial Policy.
Branstetter, Lee, Sakakibara, Mariko
Despite the existence of much theoretical research analyzing the potential benefits and costs of R&D consortia, there has been little corresponding empirical work on their efficacy. In this paper,...
Measuring the impact of US research consortia
Masao Nakamura, Mariko Sakakibara, Lee Branstetter
This paper empirically evaluates the impact of the US Advanced Technology Program-sponsored consortia on the ex-post research productivity of participating firms. We find that there is a positive...
Bronwyn H. Hall, Jacques Mairesse, Lee Branstetter, Bruno Crepon
The role of financial institutions and corporate governance in the conduct and performance of industrial firms, especially in the area of technological innovation and international competition has...
Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms.
Sakakibara, Mariko, Branstetter, Lee
Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? We examine responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners and professional documents for...
Lee Branstetter, Kwon Hyeog Ug
Concerns about the competitiveness of Japan's high-technology industries has prompted a number of recent reforms seeking to strengthen the ability of Japanese firms to utilize scientific discoveries,...
DO STRONGER PATENTS INDUCE MORE LOCAL INNOVATION?
One of the central arguments advanced by proponents of stronger intellectual property rights (IPRs) systems is that strengthening such systems induces higher levels of innovation by domestic firms....
In a number of theoretical models, it has been shown that technological externalities can generate multiple equilibria in the global pattern of specialization and trade, with different consequences...
Japanese Research Consortia: A Microeconometric Analysis of Industrial Policy
Lee Branstetter, Mariko Sakakibara
The existence of strong spillover' effects of private R&D increases the potential social contribution of R&D but may depress the private incentives to undertake it. R&D consortia offer a potentially...
Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms
Mariko Sakakibara, Lee Branstetter
Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988....
Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international spillovers' of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel...
Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?
Lee Branstetter, Yoshiaki Nakamura
This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D...
Is Academic Science Driving a Surge in Industrial Innovation? Evidence from Patent Citations
Lee Branstetter, Yoshiaki Ogura
What is driving the remarkable increase over the last decade in the propensity of patents to cite academic science? Does this trend indicate that stronger knowledge spillovers from academia have...
China's Embrace of Globalization
Lee Branstetter, Nicholas Lardy
As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among...
Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China
Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley
Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort...
China's Embrace of Globalisation
As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among...
Information Technology, Complementary Capital and the TransAtlantic Productivity Divergence
Lee Prof. Branstetter, Timothy Prof. Derdenger
Since the Lisbon Summit in 2000, there has been an active debate within Europe regarding the competitiveness of the EU regional economy. While the gap in GDP per capita is not really widening...
Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of...