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Who Collaborates with the Soviets? Financial Distress and Technology Transfer During the Great Depression

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We provide evidence that financial distress induces firms to sell their technology to foreign competitors. To do so, we construct a novel, spatial panel dataset by individually researching and locating U.S. firms who signed Technology Transfer Agreements (TTAs) with the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s in various U.S. counties. By relating the number of TTAs signed in each county to the number of bank failures, we establish a significant, positive relationship between financial distress and the number of firms signing TTAs with the Soviet Union. Our findings suggest that banking panics may create opportunities for foreign countries to acquire affected firms’ technology.

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  • Jerry Jiang & Jacob P. Weber, 2024. "Who Collaborates with the Soviets? Financial Distress and Technology Transfer During the Great Depression," Staff Reports 1134, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fednsr:99078
    DOI: 10.59576/sr.1134
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    Keywords

    Banking panic; technology assistance; know-how diffusion; industrialization; industrial policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • N6 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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