We examine whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) enhance international technology spillovers by using a panel of patent application and citation data for 142 countries/regions during 1990–2006 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We use patent citation data as a proxy for...

We investigate empirically how regional integration affects technology spillovers among trade partners. We measure the extent of technology spillovers by using patent citation data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Our main finding, from employing the gravity model, is that...