Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with … day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within … the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of experts, the worker develops his "connective capital." Firms that value …

A network/search view of international trade in differentiated products is proposed. It is shown that this view can …

location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent … in question, which we interpret as evidence of a significant role played by social capital in promoting knowledge … find strong evidence in support of the enduring social capital hypothesis; social ties that facilitate knowledge transfer …

I build a simple dynamic model of the formation of an international social network of importers and exporters. Firms … can only export into markets in which they have a contact. They acquire new contacts both at random, and via their network …