Artificial intelligence is changing which tasks workers do and how they do them. Predicting its labor market consequences requires understanding how technical change affects workers’ productivity across tasks, how workers adapt by changing occupations and acquiring new skills, and how wages...

Deutschland muss seine wirtschaftliche Leistungsfähigkeit in einem schwierigen Umfeld sichern. Der Mangel an Fachkräften, die stagnierende Produktivität und eine schwächelnde Innovationstätigkeit bedrohen Wachstum und Wohlstand. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) kann ein Schlüssel zur...

We revisit the role of human capital in cross-country income differences. We develop a general equilibrium model where workers of different skill groups sort into occupations by comparative advantage. Wages and employment depend on workers' skill quality, occupation-specific country-embedded...

Deutschland muss seine wirtschaftliche Leistungsfähigkeit in einem schwierigen Umfeld sichern. Der Mangel an Fachkräften, die stagnierende Produktivität und eine schwächelnde Innovationstätigkeit bedrohen Wachstum und Wohlstand. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) kann ein Schlüssel zur...

This study examines how policies affecting the cost of using fossil fuels in production influence comparative advantage in the industrial sector. Firstly, we use a fixed-effects gravity model to estimate the export capabilities that determine comparative advantage. Subsequently, using data on...

This study examines the interplay between trade policy, in particular non-tariff measures (NTMs), and revealed technological comparative advantage (RTA) at the NUTS 2 level as drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) over time. Combining data from the Orbis database (Bureau Van Dijk), the NTMs...

This paper investigates the determinants of comparative advantage in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-intensive industries using a comprehensive dataset of US imports from 68 countries across 79 manufacturing and service industries over the period 1999-2019. Using a novel measure of AI intensity...

This study examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) and revealed comparative advantage (RCA) on non-alcoholic trade in West Africa. The study considered data from 1995 to 2023 for 15 West African countries. It utilised the pooled mean group estimator, capturing ICT...

This paper investigates the determinants of comparative advantage in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-intensive industries using a comprehensive dataset of US imports from 68 countries across 79 manufacturing and service industries over the period 1999–2019. Using a novel measure of AI intensity...

This study introduces a two-dimensional matrix analysis method that utilizes revealed comparative advantage and revealed comparative disadvantage indices. It aims to clarify the impact of trade remedy measures on beneficiary industries' performance. We compare the effects of these measures...

We show that climate policy can unlock large environmental gains from trade by inducing economies to specialize according to their environmental comparative advantage. We make this point by exploring the effects of a carbon tax in a quantitative trade model. Our main result is that the...

The existing literature on development and economic diversification finds an inverted-U function between these two variables, whereby economies diversify as they grow up to a point, after which they start specializing. This paper contributes to this literature by investigating the stages of...

According to the general consensus in academia, Ricardo's theory of international trade embodies the theory of comparative advantage. The principle of comparative advantage he proposed, based on the model of physical trade and employing comparative cost analysis, holds that comparative advantage...