institutional reforms with the aim of increasing their technological capacity. We introduce foreign knowledge stocks, constructed … according to the trade-growth approach, into a knowledge production framework, by means of patent citations. We expand on … from their own R&D efforts. Our results also indicate that the timing of IPR reforms and financing issues are the greatest …

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment … Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois, argued, "peace is the natural effect of trade." This paper first reviews this literature and … data on bilateral trade. The resulting econometric models show that trade between nations fosters more peaceful dyadic …

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question : are trade and factor flows …

This paper studies foreign direct investment spillovers on the gender-related labour market practice of domestic firms …

This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses … contract with local producers or distributors? We organize our exposition of the trade literature on multinational firms around … the workhorse monopolistic competition model with constant-elasticity-of-substitution (CES) preferences. On the …

This paper examines the impact of American public attitudes toward foreign countries on the volume of trade. The issue … one standard deviation increase in warmth of feeling associated with a 20 to 31 percent larger trade volume when evaluated … ideology. A one standard deviation increase in the democracy score is associated with a 5 to 7 percent increase in trade. There …

In this paper, I analyze recent findings by Coe and Helpman (1995) of trade-related international R&D spillovers. I … show generally that randomly created bilateral trade shares also give rise to large estimated international R&D spillovers …' bilateral trade shares. This casts some doubt on the earlier results in the literature …