The last one and a half centuries have witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more...

The "Economic Zone on the West Shore of the Taiwan Strait" (WSTS) is a concept proposed by government of Fujian Province in 2004 and got the approval by the Chinese national government in 2009, and its development plan was officially published in March 2011. It is a region that cross the...

In previous research, we analysed the effect of technological innovation, understood as absorptive capacity, on exports by using a gravity model of trade for the year 2000 (see Márquez-Ramos and Martínez-Zarzoso, 2009). We found that the effect of technological innovation on trade varies...