We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and … to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions … of technology in shaping international trade flows. We find that, on average, absolute advantage measured as productivity …

positive-sum game in a twogoods, two-countries world where CO2 emission targets constrain the production possibilities … goods as in the classical Ricardian world. However, the main findings still apply that international trade extends the …

compensated by an increase in trans-boundary pollution which is detrimental to the productivity of environmental sensitive sectors …

the resource sector which enjoys economic rent increases its total income. To maximize world welfare in a trading steady …

measured by labour productivity. After extending the analysis to control for other relevant factors which may affect regional …