innovations and their international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in … varieties, I find that most of the growth-imports correlation is explained by these two mechanisms. I also find that the … adoption barriers induce a positive correlation between growth and import expansion …

What are the sources of economic growth? This paper presents a multicountry growth model of innovation and the adoption … of foreign technologies through trade. The costs of both domestic innovation and adopting foreign innovations are … estimated using data on innovation, output and trade. A decomposition of the sources of growth shows that technology adoption …

I develop a multicountry-model in which economic growth is driven mainly by domestic innovation and the adoption of … foreign technologies embodied in traded intermediate goods. Fitting the model to data on innovation, output per capita, and … trade in varieties for the period 1996-2007, I estimate the costs of both domestic innovation and adopting foreign …

international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that … most of the growth-imports correlation is explained by these two mechanisms. I also find that the trade channel has been …