This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

We study the world trading equilibrium in a Ricardian model where factors of production are themselves produced and tradable rather than endowed and non-tradable, corresponding to the three-quarters of international trade that is in intermediate and capital goods. We show that trade affects...