productivity and consume final good varieties from all country origins. Each variety is produced using a bundle of intermediate … this change in inequality is U-shaped in the productivity of the country. The reason is that high-productivity countries …

productivity growth based on manufacturing industry data for 14 OECD countries from 1995 ? 2000. We find that the broad measure of … international outsourcing of material inputs to low income countries is significantly negatively related to productivity growth … percent of the growth of total factor productivity in the manufacturing sector in the selected OECD countries. …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

productivity growth slowdown. Motivated by these facts, we provide a model connecting international financial integration and … global productivity growth. The key feature is that the tradable sector is the engine of growth of the economy. Capital flows … technological frontier, the result is a drop in global productivity growth. We dub this effect the global financial resource curse …