consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The … technology potentials, market sizes, trade openness and various business conditions as well as the international repercussions …

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … in the estimation of an employment regression, focusing on the effect of exchange rate movements. Our estimates indicate …

trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of technology. Thus our definition of production … function is amended to accommodate several technology shifters which are not separable from the traditional inputs. That is …