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IS NORTH‐SOUTH TRADE‐RELATED TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION REGIONAL?
Author(s) -
WANG YANLING
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2008.00133.x
Subject(s) - latin americans , index (typography) , diffusion , international trade , dimension (graph theory) , economic geography , economics , international economics , regional trade , developing country , geography , free trade , economic growth , political science , world wide web , computer science , pure mathematics , law , thermodynamics , physics , mathematics
There is an influential literature on trade‐related technology diffusion. This article contributes to that literature by investigating whether north‐south trade‐related technology diffusion has a regional dimension. To do so, we build a weighted foreign research and development index at the industry level to account for international and interindustry technology spillovers. Using parallel analysis for nine developing countries, we find: (1) north‐south trade‐related technology diffusion is strong and significant and (2) north‐south technology diffusion tends to have a regional dimension: developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East tend to benefit, respectively, more from trade with Japan, North America, and Europe than from trade with other northern regions. ( JEL F1, F15)