Knowledge Diffusion, Trade and Innovation across Countries and Sectors

Jie Cai (), Nan Li and Ana Maria Santacreu

No 2017-029, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: We provide a unified framework for quantifying the cross-country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation, and knowledge diffusion. We study the effect of trade liberalization in an endogenous growth model in which comparative advantage and the stock of knowledge are determined by innovation and diffusion. We calibrate the model to match observed cross-country and cross-sector heterogeneity in production, innovation efficiency and knowledge spillovers. Our counterfactual analysis shows that a reduction in trade costs induces a re-allocation of R&D and comparative advantage across sectors. Heterogeneous knowledge diffusion, as estimated empirically, amplify the specialization effects of trade-induced R&D re-allocation, becoming an important source of growth and welfare.

Keywords: Knowledge spillovers; sectoral linkages; R&D; international trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 O33 O41 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 78 pages
Date: 2017-10-23, Revised 2020-02-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-gro, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-knm and nep-tid
Note: Publisher DOI: 10.1257/mac.20200084
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2017.029

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