Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154853 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 91.1997
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We develop a Ricardian model to explore the role of trade in spreading the benefits of innovation. The theory delivers an equation for bilateral trade that, on its surface, resembles a gravity specification, but identifies underlying parameters of technology. We estimate the equation using trade in manufactures among the OECD. The parameter estimates allow us to simulate the model to investigate the role of trade in spreading the benefits of innovation and to examine the effects of lower trade barriers. Typically foreigners benefit by only a tenth as much as the innovating country, but in some cases the benefits to close neighbours approach those of the innovator.
Subjects: 
Trade
Gravity
Technology
Research
Integration
JEL: 
F11
F17
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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