imported goods and the productivity differential of domestic firms with the rest of the world. We show that increased import …. Domestic productivity growth converges to the international rate through firm-level investment in process innovation. With … competition, through either a larger number of imported goods or a faster international rate of productivity growth, leads to …

. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth and R&Ddriven technological progress in which countries are … countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world …. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth and R&D-driven technological progress in which countries are … countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world …. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including …

This paper develops a dynamic theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class …

examines the implications of heterogeneity in construction productivity on cross-country income disparity. We estimate the 10 …:1 spread in construction productivity among 145 countries in 2005 as a factor of 61.7-fold. Based on a general equilibrium … construction productivity gap is eliminated. Sectoral characterization of the aggregate effect of a change in construction …

differences in countries' factor endowments and total factor productivity (the Solow residual). While the former can be relatively … interpretation for differences in total factor productivity across countries and quantitatively explore the role of trade barriers in …