We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …

The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to …

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can … distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic …

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for …

countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity …

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …