Replication data for: A Trapped-Factors Model of Innovation

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Creator
- Bloom, Nicholas
- Romer, Paul M.
- Terry, Stephen J.
- Van Reenen, John
Publication Date
2013-05-01
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Abstract
We explain a counterintuitive empirical finding: Firms facing more import competition do more innovation. In our model, factors are trapped inside a firm. An increase in import competition encourages a firm to innovate by reducing the opportunity cost of inputs. Without trapped factors, trade liberalization leads to a small permanent increase in the worldwide rate of growth. With trapped factors, firms that face more import competition do relatively more innovation. The extra innovation induced by trapped factors induces a small permanent increase in aggregate output, consumption, and welfare, generalizing the appropriate estimate of the gains from trade.
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DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.3.208 (Text)
Publications
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Bloom, Nicholas, Paul M Romer, Stephen J Terry, and John Van Reenen. “A Trapped-Factors Model of Innovation.” American Economic Review 103, no. 3 (May 2013): 208–13. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.3.208.
- ID: 10.1257/aer.103.3.208 (DOI)
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