Technology, trade, and growth: A unified framework

By J. Eaton, Samuel Kortum. 2001

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Abstract Our recent work examines the links among innovation, technology, trade, and growth. One strand focuses on research activity, technology diffusion, and growth. The other examines technology and trade. In this paper we exploit the common treatment of technology in these two strands to provide a parsimonious model of innovation, growth, and trade. We examine the effect of lower geographic barriers to trade on research and the effects of scale and research productivity on relative incomes.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Trade, Domestic Frictions, and Scale Effects (2016, unknown): “Subtracting (20) from (19) for country l yields”
Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on innovation, IT and Productivity (2011, background): “In particular, a large fraction of the China-8 Eaton and Kortum (2001 and 2002) combine competition, market size and learning in a quantifiable general equilibrium trade model.”
Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms (2011, unknown): “(11) Each entrant chooses its R&D level according to the following first-order condition:”
Equilibrium Technology Diffusion, Trade, and Growth (2021, result): “13This result is similar to one in Eaton and Kortum (2001) who highlight that there are two competing forces from a larger market: a larger market makes an innovation more valuable, but also makes it more costly to achieve a new innovation.”
Growth with Quality-Improving Innovations: An Integrated Framework (2005, background): “Eaton and Kortum (2001) provide a simple “semi-endogenous” (see section 5 below) growth model in which endogenous innovation interacts with technology transfer and international trade in goods; in their model all countries converge to the same long-run growth rate.”
Putting Ricardo to Work (2012, background): “Having introduced imperfect competition, in Eaton and Kortum (2001) we show that innovation and growth fi t seamlessly into the theory.”
FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT: A TALE OF TWO SECTORS (2011, background): “(1994), Eaton and Kortum (2001) , and Herrendorf and Valentinyi (2006) are more recent contributions.”
Innovation and Production in the Global Economy (2018, methodology): “, the gains from trade in this case) are given by GOn = λT nn 1/θ , as in Eaton and Kortum (2002), and Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodríguez-Clare (2012).”
A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth (2009, unknown): “Following Kortum (1997) and Eaton and Kortum (2001), I assume that the rate at which new ideas arrive at each country is exogenously given.”