This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

reduction in average US tariffs – larger than CUS-FTA, NAFTA, and the liberalization accompanying the granting of PNTR to China … technology-intensive industries, suggesting a complementarity between trade liberalization and skill-biased technological change … intermediate inputs. Finally, we show that policymakers dampened the observed impact of tariffs on inequality by assigning smaller …