What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms' innovative activities? Does the increase in … competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

We empirically analyse the response of US manufacturing labour market variables to various shocks, notably to trade … factors (a sector-specific measure of trade openness, along with common technology and oil price shocks), specific measures of … manufacturing-wide variables are included for each sector. Generalised impulse responses indicate that increased trade openness …

We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 … prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … naturally to a difference in differences estimation, with international differences in trade openness at the sector level …