Effects of Trade Policy on Technology Adoption and Investment

Foreign Investment as Main Factor for Successful Funds and Its Effect on Trade Balance Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty

The effects of grant policy on technology investment in Italy

This paper investigates the effect of subsidies on the adoption of information and communication technology in Italy. We argue that the important geographical differences between North and South Italy are something that public policy should be concerned of. A matching estimator is used to explore the effects of financial assistance, by comparing the granted with non-granted firms. Our results s...

Technology Adoption and Trade Policies

We examine in a dyanmic model how a firm determines the optimal level of innovation, and how a firm chooses between innovation and imitation. This paper considers a local firm, which is competing with a foreign, more productive, firm in terms of quantity, and at the same time, the local firm is able to spend the optimal amount of resources on innovation, with the purpose of closing the technolo...

the effects of planning on accuracy and complexity of iranian efl students’ written narrative task performance

this study compared the different effects of form-focused guided planning vs. meaning-focused guided planning on iranian pre-intermediate students’ task performance. the study lasted for three weeks and concentrated on eight english structures. forty five pre-intermediate iranian students were randomly assigned to three groups of guided planning focus-on-form group (gpfg), guided planning focus...

R&D Investment and Technology Adoption

We study a model of technology adoption. The firm’s profit is depending on the technology that it uses. The firm holds the option to upgrade its current technology with a new one. Technology progress is modeled with a Poisson process. The firm can either rely on the external R&D market or it can setup its own R&D center. The arrival rate of new technologies in the external R&D market is constan...