General Purpose Technologies and their Implications for International Trade

This paper develops a simple model of trade and “quality-ladders” growth without scale effects to study the implications of general purpose technologies (GPTs) for international trade. GPTs refer to a certain type of drastic innovations, such as electrification, the transistor, and the Internet, tha...

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Main Author: Petsas Iordanis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-09-01
Series:International Journal of Management and Economics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ijme-2015-0026