We examine whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) enhance international technology spillovers by using a panel of patent application and citation data for 142 countries/regions during 1990–2006 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We use patent citation data as a proxy for...

We investigate empirically how regional integration affects technology spillovers among trade partners. We measure the extent of technology spillovers by using patent citation data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Our main finding, from employing the gravity model, is that...

In this paper, we develop a two-country model of monopolistic competition with quality differentiation by extending the model of Melitz and Ottaviano (2008) and examine the relationship between the bilateral trade structure and international technology spillovers. We show that bilateral trade...