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 …

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 …

Unlike the widespread adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in much of the economy, adoption of … standards are critical for ensuring optimal use of the technology. Careful consideration of the socially optimal time to invest …

Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …

This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U … IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production is virtually identical in the two countries. In addition, as a … result of the adoption of the new technology, plants in both countries have shifted production to customized products …

, which creates a negative environmental externality, and may decide to switch to cleaner technology. A benevolent social … planner sets carbon taxes without commitment. Higher future carbon taxes both reduce emissions given technology and encourage … energy producers to switch to cleaner technology. Geoengineering advances, which reduce the negative environmental effects of …

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 …