Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng: International Trade and the Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries
Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng: International Trade and the Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries
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DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.964158
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发表时间：
2007-01
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Diego Puga;Daniel Trefler
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作者：
Diego Puga;Daniel Trefler
中国、印度和墨西哥等少数低工资国家越来越多地参与渐进式创新。也就是说，他们负责解决生产线上的错误并提出产品改进建议。我们提供了这一新现象的证据，并开发了一个模型，其中有一个过渡，从老式的产品周期贸易的贸易涉及在低工资国家的增量创新。该模型解释了为什么低工资国家和每个低工资国家内的公司对渐进式创新的参与程度各不相同。我们指出了对部门收入、生活水平、资本账户以及最重要的国际货物贸易的影响。
Increasingly, a small number of low-wage countries such as China, India and Mexico are involved in incremental innovation. That is, they are responsible for resolving production-line bugs and suggesting product improvements. We provide evidence of this new phenomenon and develop a model in which there is a transition from old-style product-cycle trade to trade involving incremental innovation in low-wage countries. The model explains why levels of involvement in incremental innovation vary across low-wage countries and across firms within each low-wage country. We draw out implications for sectoral earnings, living standards, the capital account and, foremost, international trade in goods.