consumers, and what the growth potential of these goods is. While, all else equal, the North tends to lose more (or gain less …

In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that … do not export. We also find that trade iberalization promotes economic growth and that it has the opposite effect of … retarding economic growth in a closely comparable growth model with Melitz-type assumptions …

as the consumption-wealth ratio, the growth rate of wealth, and welfare, in a two-country world, based on a portfolio … sharing. The theoretical results for the growth rate depend on differences on productivities and consumption-wealth ratios …

growth strategy. …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The …

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

This paper examines the diversity of the types of links of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance …, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to …

much of the cumulative innovation literature. When the research abilities of the firms differ, either the high ability firm …

We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and … growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier …