US technology exports: That won't do nicely at all

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

The elegant law that governs us all.

A dog owner weighs twice as much as her German shepherd. Does she eat twice as much? Does a big city need twice as many gas stations as one that is half its size? Our first instinct is to say yes. But, alas, we are wrong. On a per-gram basis, a human requires about 25% less food than her dog, and the larger city needs only 85% more gas stations. If we double the population of a city, we also ne...

Business Cycles, Technology and Exports

This article shows – on both conceptual and empirical grounds the importance of business cycles in affecting key relationships between innovation and international performance. While periods of upswing are characterised by a well documented „virtuous circle‟ between innovation inputs, new products and export success, during downswings most of the positive relationships and feedbacks tend to bre...

All That Jazz : Três Aplicações Do Conceito

The theme of improvisation constitutes an emerging topic in the field of management and organizations. The concept entered organization studies in association with the jazz metaphor but, due to the growing number of empirical studies, it is acquiring an increasing level of prominence and instrumental value. This article discusses the relationship between jazz music and management studies. It st...

US Firm Exports and Intellectual Property Rights

How do intellectual property rights (IPR) policies a¤ect international trade? In this paper we consider two of the central results from the model of Lin (2013) (i) that IPR reforms should expand the range of goods exported to a country through the extensive margin of trade and (ii) …rms with more newly developed products should be more sensitive to IPR policies than other innovative …rms. Build...