To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …
R Hausmann, J Hwang, D Rodrik - Journal of economic growth, 2007 - Springer
When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important …
EA Verhoogen - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries—the quality-upgrading mechanism—and investigates its empirical implications in …
The authors discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. They begin with a discussion of conceptual issues …
This paper exploits India's rapid, comprehensive, and externally imposed trade reform to establish a causal link between changes in tariffs and firm productivity. Pro-competitive …
How does firm entry affect innovation incentives in incumbent firms? Microdata suggest that there is heterogeneity across industries. Specifically, incumbent productivity growth and …
We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License Raj—a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector—vary …
D Acemoglu, D Cao - Journal of Economic Theory, 2015 - Elsevier
We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more “radical” …