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This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting 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 U.S. 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.
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William Kerr
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
William Kerr is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. Bill is a Research Fellow of the NBER and Bank of Finland, has received several awards for his research papers, and serves on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals. Bill’s research focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation.
During this seminar, he discussed his paper "Heterogenous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns."