Heterogeneous technology diffusion and Ricardian trade patterns
By: William R. Kerr
Contributors: Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 14-039; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 14-039
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Description: This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting.
Notes: "November 2013"--Publisher's Web site.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-31).