Borrowing Constraints and Technology Diffusion: Implications of Intra-Industry Trade

Borrowing Constraints and Technology Di¤usion: Implications of Intra-Industry Trade (Job Market Paper)

This paper develops a theory of total factor productivity di¤erences in a framework of technology di¤usion. I show how in countries with tighter borrowing constraints, frontier technologies di¤use more slowly, and old outdated technologies continue to be used. I analyse how countries with di¤erent borrowing constraints specialise across new and old technologies through two forms of intra-indust...

Determinants of Iran’s bilateral intra-industry trade in pharmaceutical industry

Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

Determinants of Iran’s bilateral intra-industry trade in pharmaceutical industry

Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

The Role of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Iran and Malaysia their Intra industry Trade (IIT)

The Nexus between Economic Growth and Intra-Industry Trade

According to traditional trade theories, foreign trade affects economic growth via several channels such as knowledge and technology spillover, improvement of resources allocation, increasing productivity and competitiveness. Within the framework of new trade theories, the effect of foreign trade on economic growth is ambiguous, and this effect depends on the combination of the different effect...