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No.654 The Impact of Import vs. Export Competition in Technology Flows between Countries
by Kaoru Nabeshima, Mila Kashcheeva, and Byeongwoo Kang
April 2017
ABSTRACT
Many
countries
are
interested
in
strengthening
their
technological
capabilities
to
achieve
high
growth
rates.
Knowledge
flow
is
a
key
to
build
technological
capabilities.
This
paper
investigates
how
competition
in
international
trades
affects
knowledge
flow
between
countries.
There
are
two
findings.
First,
the
results
in
the
current
paper
shows
that
import
is
indeed
an
important
avenue
for
knowledge
flow,
conforming
with
the
results
from
the
previous
literature.
Second,
what
is
interesting
and
new
is
that
export
competition
in
the
third
market
(in
our
study,
the
US
market)
seems
to
also
have
a
positive
impact
on
the
flow
of
knowledge.
The
finding
from
this
study
contributes
to
the
debate
on
"learning-by-exporting".
Keywords: International
trade,
knowledge
flow,
learning-by-export,
East
Asia
JEL
classification: F14,
D83,
O53
PDF available at http://hdl.handle.net/2344/00048860
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