Technological Diffusion Through Trade and Imitation

“Geography, International Trade and Technological Diffusion”

This paper investigates the impact of geography on technological diffusion via international trade and proposes to re-examine the contribution of Coe, Helpman and Hoffmaister to the knowledge spillovers literature. Using a gravitational model, we first confirm the negative effect of physical distance on imports. We also show that geographic proximity contributes to more technological diffusion ...

Productivity Growth and Technological Diffusion through Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has dramatically increased worldwide and is the most important form of all private capital flows to developing countries. Yet, it is an important empirical question whether FDI affects total factor productivity (TFP) positively. We investigate the effect of FDI on TFP growth in a large sample of countries in 1970–2000. Our econometric results indicate that FDI ha...

Imitation and Innovation in International Governance: The Diffusion of Trade Agreement Design

The diffusion of technological knowledge through interlaced networks

The study of complex networks and the mechanisms underlying their formation gave an important direction to the research on the diffusion of information. It has been suggested that the network created by scientific citations follow a well-established picture of a scale-free network. Thus, citations should obey the basic mechanisms of preferential attachment, as in other examples of social networ...

Ontology of Bankruptcy Diffusion through Trade Credit Channel

It is widely believed that the whole economic system has exhibited an increasingly intertwined nature in the context of economic globalization and regional integration. With the increasing interactions among trading partners in a supply network, bankruptcy of a member firm may make others get into distressed situations. This kind of phenomena is called bankruptcy diffusion or bankruptcy contagi...