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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Cross-country price and inflation dispersion : retail network or national border?

Messner, Teresa; Rumler, Fabio; Strasser, Georg - 2023

(Why) do prices and inflation rates differ within the euro area? We study the relevance of a national border for grocery prices in the otherwise homogenous and highly integrated border region of Austria and Germany. Using transaction data on prices and quantities from a large household panel, we...

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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries

Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014

Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....

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International Trade, Technology Diffusion, and the Role of Diffusion Barriers

Li, Yao Amber - 2014

This paper assesses the welfare impact of trade and technology diffusion as well as the change in the cross-country distribution of GDP due to removal of trade costs and diffusion barriers. The model extends the multi-country Ricardian trade model of Alvarez and Lucas (2007) to include...

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Trade, Technology Diffusion and Misallocation : Trade Partner Matters

Curuk, Malik - 2012

This paper suggests that contingent on the productivity level of the trade partner; international trade may create resource misallocation in less productive countries. It theoretically shows how the interaction between technology diffusion induced by trade and cross sectoral heterogeneity in...

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Welfare implications of international financial integration

Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2008

Focusing on technology spillover from foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, this paper investigates the welfare implications of financial integration. Calibrations of a neoclassical growth model with international technology diffusion show that when technology catch-up due to FDI inflows is...

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Trade agreements and international technology transfer

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Chelala, Santiago - 2020

This is the first paper that analyzes for a global sample how trade agreements that include technology-related provisions impact exports of goods, and how this impact differs depending on the technology content of the goods. It includes estimations of a structural gravity model for a panel of...

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Cross-border institutions and the globalization of innovation

Bian, Bo; Meier, Jean-Marie; Xu, Ting - 2021

We identify strong cross-border institutions as a driver for the globalization of in-novation. Using 67 million patents … from over 100 patent oﬃces, we introduce novel measures of innovation diﬀusion and collaboration. Exploiting staggered … result in techno-logical convergence. The eﬀects are particularly strong for process innovation, and for countries that are …

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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …

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Clean and dirty international technology diffusion

Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - 2013

This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...

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