of natural resource abundance, export concentration and intra-industry trade. We test the robustness of these … growth, especially natural resource abundance and export concentration. In contrast to much of the recent literature, natural … resource abundance appears to have a positive effect on growth whereas export concentration hampers growth …

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals non-linear effects of both sectoral import penetration and de jure … consistent with a neo-Schumpeterian view of trade and regulation. Close to the technology frontier, import competition has a …

the economic history of preindustrial China in order to understand how and why it differed from that of preindustrial …

We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China … capabilities and physical infrastructure provided foundational support for the emergence of Chinese enterprises capable of … technological learning. Second, we delve into the main modes by which Chinese firms engaged in technological learning from abroad …