A formula is derived to indicate the marginal returns to nonprice promotion for a competitive industry that promotes in both the domestic and the export market and receives a subsidy for export promotion. Private returns to export promotion are an increasing function of the export promotion...

"The published works of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) represent the most immediate and tangible measure of the new policy-related knowledge attributable to the institute, its staff, and research partners. This study provides a quantitative assessment of the number,...

For more than two decades, the United States has been an important player in a global partnership for agricultural research through its investments in the work of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a network of 16 agricultural research centers around the...

A general model analyzes the innovator's decision to perform research and development directed towards process innovation. The innovator chooses expenditures in several research activities. The vector of research expenditures determines the input-output coefficients that describe the innovative...

"This report spells out the benefits to the United States from its partnership with the CGIAR. Using wheat and rice to illustrate the gains from international research on important food crops, the report shows that U.S. investments in CGIAR wheat and rice research have paid off many times over...

A $2\times 2\times 2$ model with endogenous process innovation describes two regimes for international technology transfer: multinational enterprise, in which the innovating firm receives all rents from foreign and domestic use of the innovation, and piracy, in which some are all of the rents...