to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology … diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an endogenous growth theory that can shed light on the link between the …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have … countries. In each country, the incumbent autocrat will cater to the preferences of the elites when setting trade policy and the …

world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists … reduction in emissions. A second exercise comparing the actual trade situation with an autarky benchmark estimates that trade …

parameters of technology. We estimate the equation using trade in manufactures among the OECD. The parameter estimates allow us …We develop a Ricardian model to explore the role of trade in spreading the benefits of innovation. The theory delivers … an equation for bilateral trade that, on its surface, resembles a gravity specification, but identifies underlying …

This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would …

income growth among regions. Empirical data seem to support the absolute convergence hypothesis for U.S. states, but the data … also show that natural resource-abundance is a significant negative determinant of growth. We find that natural resource … effects can fully explain the negative effect of natural resource abundance on growth. …

to knowledge creation, a feature based on endogenous growth theory. We analyze the link from resource income future …