This paper develops a multi-country, general equilibrium, semi endogenous growth model of innovation and trade in which … specialization in innovation and production are jointly determined. The distinctive element of the model is the ability of the agents … countries and contemporaneous decreasing returns to R&D. The model features a two-way relationship between trade and technology …

Ricardian trade theory predicts that countries should produce and export according to their comparative advantage … fundamental theories of international trade, it has received little attention in the modern empirical literature, except for the … provide the first theoretically consistent estimation of the extent to which relative bilateral trade flows can be explained …

's per capita income and the extensive margin of bilateral trade. The underlying mechanism is based on the fact that agents … therewith the extensive margin of trade. We formalize this intuition by incorporating preferences that allow for binding non … expenditures and aggregate values of bilateral trade flows and find that the behavior of the model's extensive margin of bilateral …

I propose a method of moments estimator of revealed comparative advantage based on a flexible specification of trade … flows that is consistent with a large class of gravity models of international trade. I show that this estimator has many … common to trade data …

Intra-industry trade has a paramount value in the theory of international trade due to the reason that it establishes … comparative advantage. The current research is an endeavour to examine the determinants of intra-industry trade through Augmented … Gravity Equation (AGE) and the potential of intra-industry trade through revealed comparative advantage (determined by the …

This paper investigates the trade migration link within a Ricardian model à la Eaton and Kortum (2002) and it … quantifies the pro-trade effects of immigrants for 18 manufacturing sectors in a sample of 19 OECD countries. The results are …" as the sector where immigration has the greatest impact on trade. The analysis shows that accounting for ethnic networks …

gender inequality with comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses different forms and …

Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To … explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … reason of growing trade in intermediate goods in the cross-section and the time-series framework. The evidence for …