This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content …

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 considers a dynamic North South model of international trade and innovations in which firms can endogenously … rights between the two regions, innovating firms face a trade-off between delocalization in the South and more secure … endogenous technological bias towards skilled labour technologies. We discuss the implications of this trade induced …