We examine research and development (R&D) policies when a national firm forms an R&D alliance with a foreign competitor. Firms differ in their R&D capabilities, and adopt a profit-sharing rule when R&D decisions are coordinated. National R&D tax/subsidy policies are set independently or...

In this paper we investigate the relative importance of net exchanges of skills embodied in intra-industry and inter-industry trade for the UK's trade with some middle income countries. We also separately measure the net exchanges of skills embodied in vertical and horizontal intra-industry...

The impact of firm level productivity heterogeneity on export market entry has been the subject of theoretical innovation and extensive empirical scrutiny in recent years. The latter has focused on falling trade costs and firm level productivity, notwithstanding the fact that theory also points...