Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s -- the regionalisation of …

technology spillovers and backward linkages with domestic suppliers. In this paper, we study how these externalities are affected … compatible with the foreign technology has heterogeneous effects. It benefits foreign firms and the most productive downstream … domestic firms adopting the foreign technology, and negatively affects firms using the domestic technology. The impact on …

using the same technology. In this setting, we study the role of heterogeneity among domestic firms. We show that only the … best suppliers adopt the foreign technology and cater to multinationals. In the long run, technology adoption by the most …

technology diffuses to other suppliers not directly engaged in the technology transfer process, and downstream knowledge … technological effort is low, technology transfer is encouraged (discouraged) by upstream (downstream) knowledge diffusion. When … the input price, the opposite results obtain: upstream knowledge diffusion discourages technology transfer as increased …

international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by … struggle of the local population to prevent such assimilation. These activities affect trade possibilities. Moreover, we show … that it may well be in the interest of migrants who specialize in trade to, at some point in time, turn from investing in …

This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in U.S. imports using detailed country-product data. We create … a new measure of product contractibility based on the degree of intermediation in international trade for the product …. We find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristics in determining intra-firm trade shares …

potential explanation for these puzzles by nesting the above theories in a multi-location model with trade costs. Using a number …

Recent theoretical models argue that a bank’s organizational structure reflects its lending technology. A … communication technology, have a wider span of organization, and are further removed from a decision unit with lending authority … organizational structure and technology of rival banks in the vicinity influence local banking competition. …