total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … based on industry-specific research and development in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …