Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it … skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a tractable quantitative model of international trade in capital goods to …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply …-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of “Management as a Technology”, and structurally estimate it using panel …

We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … to variety. Infrastructure alters factor prices, intermediate prices and the allocation of factors across sectors. The … effect on manufacturing or aggregate output, however, is indeterminate. In particular, our theory suggests that the degree of …

compare decentralization--where the business unit using the technology makes licensing decisions--to centralized licensing … technology markets favors centralization and drives higher licensing rates. Our model conforms to the existing evidence that …

these shortcomings by focusing on technological learning-by-doing: the notion that it takes workers time using a technology …

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology … adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines … the initial productivity of a new technology. After implementation, learning increases the productivity of a technology to …

We survey research on the relationship between technology and trade. We begin with the old literature, which treated … the state of technology as exogenous and asked how changes in technology affect the trade pattern and welfare. Recent … research and development. This allows one to examine not only how technology affects trade, but also how trade affects the …

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …

Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more …