absence of technology transfer, research and development, and international investment, and also in the absence of aggregate …

economies of scale to sort out the rich interactions between TBT reform, input diversity, firm-level productivity, and aggregate … productivity. We calibrate the model for 14 industries in order to clarify the theoretical ambiguities. Overall, our results tend …

MNCs involvement in human rights' abuses in these countries. To date, no scholarly research has analysed the factors that …

of trade liberalization. This paper is the first one to address productivity leapfrogging between two countries using a … heterogeneous firms trade framework. In the model, firms' R&D investments determine their expected productivity draw. In one country … firms face lower R&D costs. Before trade liberalization, the sector productivity and the competition intensity is higher in …

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … based on industry-specific research and development in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … based on industry-specific research and development in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

the European Research Area (ERA) and a knowledge-based economy. We start with an overview of existing theory and empirical … ; European Research Area …