Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

The recent literature on international technology diffusion has demonstrated the positive effect improvements in foreign country productivity can have on domestic productivity. Using a sample of 9 manufacturing industries in 12 OECD countries over the period 1972 to 1992 we search to find...

This paper exploits exogenous features of the 1960s/70s container revolution to estimate the impact of the introduction of refrigerated containers (or reefers) on new trade of temperature sensitive products. Our identification strategy is justified by a historical narrative which suggests that...