This chapter reviews the empirical economics literature on the impact of trade liberalization
on firms' innovation-related outcomes. We define and examine four types of shocks to trade …

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

We provide a review of the recent literature–both theoretical and empirical–analyzing the
multi-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model …

How do import tariffs and R&D subsidies help domestic firms compete globally? How do
these policies affect aggregate growth and economic welfare? To answer these questions …

We present a simple and tractable trade model of heterogeneous firms, endogenous quality
choice, and endogenous markups. A key feature of the model is that competition not only …

Occupational health is an important determinant of workers' welfare. Existing mechanisms
and evidence from the international trade and occupational safety literatures combine to …

To show how local market concentration affects firm productivity, we exploit a rare database
for developing-country standards consisting of five rounds of the Mexican Manufacturing …

The paper studies the effects of competition on innovation in various technology groups of
mature Russian manufacturing firms. The purpose of the research is to establish whether …

A key idea in the literature on trade and growth is that trade liberalization may affect plants'
innovative activities through increased competition. Theoretical predictions remain …

When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may
arise. An increase in competition may then force managers to improve the productivity of the …