This paper addresses the role of mobility costs in shaping the effects of trade integration on wage inequality and welfare. We present a three-factor, two-sector model in which the production technology exhibits capital-skill complementarity and the cost of moving across sectors differs between...

Due to an extraordinary growth performance during the last two decades the Chilean neo-liberal model of development, based on the exploitation of the country’s static comparative advantages, has turned into a benchmark for most developing countries. The aim of this paper is to discuss the long...

<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This paper presents a specific-factor model showing that, under technological uncertainty and risk averse agents, increasing trade integration is not always welfare increasing. The reason is that changes in the country's specialization level induced by trade integration produce both benefits and...</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This paper presents a historical and empirical account of the role played by government</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">intervention in the form of industrial policies in spurring development and growth in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">developing countries in the last fifty years. Adopting the taxonomy proposed in Cimoli et</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">alt. (2008), it describes the set...</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This work provides an empirical assessment of the 'sophistication' of the Italian international</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">specialization pattern and of its evolution during the period 1980</span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt">¡</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt">2000. In particular we analyse</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">the well-known Italian trade 'anomaly' combining the information coming from the PRODY index</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Hausmann...</span></span>

"We review the theories of growth and economic development in which the industrial sector plays a role. We briefly discuss the theoretical arguments that have been put forward in each of them and summarise the explanation of how industrialisation promotes growth and economic development. We...

This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of Palestine during the Second Intifada. Using a unique establishment-level dataset, we compare firms' outcomes and input usage over time across districts experiencing differential...

Consumer boycott campaigns against goods that are produced using child labor are becoming increasingly popular. Yet there is still no consensus on which are the effects of such type of activism on child labor in developing countries. In fact, if some agreement is to be found in the recent...