Krugman's (1979, 1980) monoplistic competition model of trade showed that countries with more similar per-capita GDP … trade more with each other. Does this mean that developing countries shift trade towards developed countries as a result of … high economic growth? The results reported in this paper challenge the link between per-capita GDP and trade predicted by …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also … have also contributed to increasing productivity and long-term growth. We explore empirically the impact of GVC … participation on productivity in Estonia using firm-level data from 2000 to 2016. We find that higher GVC participation at the …

This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin …-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and trade's R&D content, and falls with distance to the … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia - SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …

across countries and sectors. On the other hand, opening to trade boosts individual firms’ productivity growth, via a number … empirical literature on firm heterogeneity and external trade. By innovatively exploiting rich cross-country micro … firm heterogeneity for trade of EU countries, showing a set of stylised facts. On the one hand, exporting firms are larger …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … spillovers: trade, co-patenting and geographical proximity. Both our panel and instrumental variable estimations for European … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions …