Arbeitspapier
The infant industry argument: Tariffs, NTMs and innovation
One rationale for the infant industry argument is that, by protecting domestic firms from foreign competition, this increases rents and investment in innovation and other growth enhancing measures. Using data on 4,750 firms across 13 developing countries, we examine whether protection via tariffs or non-tariff measures (SPS and TBT specifically) increase innovation in either products or processes. We find no such evidence; instead we find a small negative impact of protection, particularly tariffs and TBTs, on innovation.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP17/03
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Procurement
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
- Subject
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Non-Tariff Measures
Technical Barriers to Trade
Innovation
Infant Industry
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bagayev, Igor
Davies, Ronald B.
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Veröffentlichung
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University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics
- (where)
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Dublin
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bagayev, Igor
- Davies, Ronald B.
- University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics
Time of origin
- 2017
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