The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents … in laser sources technology (IPC H01S) and by having patents with university inventors. Quality patents are defined as …

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up … to the technology frontier. …

problems in the innovation process, and highlight the positive role played by international trade in the technology transfer … and 10 technology source countries, for the period 1980 - 1999 when the majority of the countries studied undertook … previous studies by taking into account the role of institutions and various measures of proximity between technology source …

country and year. However, transport-related infrastructure may be able to alleviate these disadvantages. …

manufacturing. Finally, we find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that national infrastructure (i.e., transport …-related infrastructure and rail lines) can alleviate the lagging behind of landlocked regions. …

those of infrastructure and institutions. However, trade policy emerges as an important detfirminant of the North …

Is geography destiny? What is the role of first-nature geography in determining prosperity? This paper estimates the … effect of randomly removing and introducing favorable first-nature geography to a specific region using a difference in … between 1086 and 1208. The elasticity of geography-induced market access is estimated to be 1.6, corresponding to 26.7 percent …

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in … separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies. …

We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We …. Our estimates suggest that the second effect dominates. Technology dampens the impact of spatial frictions by up to 80 … percent and increases, in net terms, the share of offshore trading by 21 percentage points. Technology also has economically …