Regional trade agreements can have powerful impacts on technology transfer (TT), primarily through their effects on trade in high-technology goods and services, foreign direct investment (FDI), and licensing, all of which are key channels of information diffusion. In that context, regional trade...

We develop a version of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) theorem with parametric technological differences for application to U.S. and U.K. data on the factor contents of trade, output, and consumption. We construct a matched set of input-output tables, consumption and trade vectors, and labor...