We develop a multi-factor, multi-sector Eaton-Kortum model in order to examine the impact
of trade costs, factor endowments, and technology (both Ricardian and factor-augmenting) …

This paper examines how production techniques differ across countries, factors, and
industries and considers its implications for previous empirical evidence on the Vanek …

We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy
setting. In addition to factor endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a …

This paper examines the accumulation of physical capital versus knowledge (R&D) capital
as a determinant of advanced countries' comparative advantage. I show that advanced …

Using OECD input–output tables for a diverse group of 33 countries in the year 2000 and
estimates of each country's factor stocks, I compute factor payments for aggregate labor and …

Differences in how countries absorb endowments of skilled and unskilled labour can be
decomposed into (a) differences in the skewness of output mix towards skill-intensive …

Although firms may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm
heterogeneity is often overlooked. We model input demand across local factor markets …

We model firm adaptation to local factor markets in which firms care about both the price and
availability of inputs. The model is estimated by combining firm and population census data …

El análisis insumo-producto es una de las principales herramientas que posee la economıa
cuantitativa para el estudio de caracterısticas de largo plazo de los sistemas económicos. A …

Trade economists have largely abandoned the HOV model when studying productivity
differences. This is due to both the model's inability to admit these differences realistically …