Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimate...

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Main Author:	Kerr, William R.
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TRADE PATTERNS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE INNOVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRATION PATENTS ETHNIC NETWORKS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/780211491839158726/Heterogeneous-technology-diffusion-and-Ricardian-trade-patterns http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26372

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spelling	okr-10986-263722021-06-08T14:42:48Z Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns Kerr, William R. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TRADE PATTERNS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE INNOVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRATION PATENTS ETHNIC NETWORKS Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits 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 US 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. This provides an important contribution to the trade literature of Ricardian advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks. 2017-04-13T20:34:12Z 2017-04-13T20:34:12Z 2017-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/780211491839158726/Heterogeneous-technology-diffusion-and-Ricardian-trade-patterns http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26372 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8027 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper United States
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spellingShingle	TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TRADE PATTERNS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE INNOVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRATION PATENTS ETHNIC NETWORKS Kerr, William R. Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
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description	Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits 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 US 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. This provides an important contribution to the trade literature of Ricardian advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks.
format	Working Paper
author	Kerr, William R.
author_facet	Kerr, William R.
author_sort	Kerr, William R.
title	Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
title_short	Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
title_full	Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
title_fullStr	Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
title_full_unstemmed	Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
title_sort	heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/780211491839158726/Heterogeneous-technology-diffusion-and-Ricardian-trade-patterns http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26372
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