A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such …-income locations export high-quality products. The factor-proportions model also predicts that skill-abundant, high-income locations … export skill-intensive, high-quality products. Prior empirical evidence does not separate these explanations. I develop a …

light on how market size differences can limit the scope for international technology transfers …

indicators of technology shocks: R+D spending and patent applications. Using annual panel data on 19 US manufacturing industries …The real business cycle literature has largely ignored the empirical question of what role technology shocks actually … play in business cycles. The observed procyclicality of total factor productivity (TFP) does not prove that technology …

creation of formal technology licensing offices at universities. Up until approximately the mid-1980s, university patents were …

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 …

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 … export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending …

We explore in this paper the role of export subsidies when goods arriving from foreign countries are initially of … goods, consumers view price as a signal of quality, a role for export subsidies can arise. In particular, we show that … absent export subsidies, entry of high quality firms may be blocked by their inability to sell at prices reflecting their …