Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

NBER Working Paper No. 13662
Issued in December 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

I thank Fernando Alvarez, Costas Arkolakis, Kerem Cosar, Jonathan Eaton, Josh Ederington, Claudio González-Vega, Elhanan Helpman, Pete Klenow, Sam Kortum, Kala Krishna, Giovanni Maggi, Natalia Ramondo, Miguel A. Rodríguez, Robert Staiger, Dan Trefler, Jim Tybout, and Gustavo Ventura, as well as seminar participants at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Fundação Getulio Vargas, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Ohio State University, Northwestern University, Boston University, Boston College, UCLA, the Winter Meeting of the International Trade and Investment Program of the NBER, the University of Chicago, and the Summer Princeton Trade Conference for helpful comments. I also thank Yong Hu, Alexander Tarasov and Daniel Xu for excellent research assistance. All errors are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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