We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …

consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The …

technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be … the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …

I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …

Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room …

, in contrast, that σ is affected by both globalization and technology, and that different intensities in these drivers … substitution between capital and labor is below unity; that it increases along with the degree of globalization; but it decreases …-output ratio on the labor share irrespective of the degree of globalization (which would be consistent with an average aggregate …

- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part … skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …