The technology transfer paradox

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jones, Ronald W.; Ruffin, Roy J.
• 署名单位: University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of Rochester
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2007.08.008
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 321-328
• 关键词: technology transfer; turning points

摘要

This paper examines whether a country that enjoys a superior technology in all commodities in a two-country, multi-commodity Ricardian setting could actually gain if its technology in which it possesses its greatest comparative advantage is stolen or transferred to the other country without any compensation. Such a paradoxical possibility is shown always to exist with a finite number of commodities and equal-shared Cobb-Douglas demand conditions for certain ranges of relative country size. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.