This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technology spillovers and its … measurement of international technology spillovers instead of using per capita GDP gap in respect to the leader country as … approach to it. Our results reveal that international technology spillovers transmitted through imports have had a favourable …

productivity and competitiveness of UAE worldwide. However, the county is still lagging behind most transformation economies and …, adapt and create new technology and knowledge. As a result, the country's economy is experiencing a negative trade balance …

From the early 1980s to the late 1990s overall productivity rates did not reflect the rising investment in information … and computer technology (ICT). This paradox, the productivity paradox, which was widely discussed among economists may … well turn out to be mainly a mirage once the assumption is excluded that investment has a short‐run effect on productivity …

Abstract In this paper, we analyze the trade war between two large countries when the trade policy is decided through … majority voting. We show how the distributive aspect of trade policy interacts with the strategic aspect. It is shown that the … of the trade war at home (abroad) is larger (lower) than the Johnson-Mayer one. This is to say that the strategic effects …

This paper examines the composition of bilateral manufacturing trade in terms of its pollution intensity. A growing … share of world trade takes place between nations who are members of the same regional trade agreement (RTA). We analyze how … the formation of RTAs affects the composition of trade. We focus on whether richer or poorer nations specialize in …

Abstract The current paper addresses the relationship between trade and endogenous pollution levels, with a focus … different from the previous literature. The mechanism linking pollution and trade here is that trade policy provides the home …. In that sense, the existence of trade helps reduce domestic pollution compared to what would prevail in a situation of …

on exogenous country characteristics to predictions on trade flows and pollution levels. I then discuss recent …

advantage in environment-intensive industries. International trade, in this setting, is not necessarily welfare improving. When … corruption responds endogenously to the over-exploitation of resources, it is possible for international trade to generate forces … that improve resource management by reducing corruption. Therefore, in this case trade could provide gains in addition to …