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Author-Name: Inés Granda
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Author-Name: Antonio Fonfría
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Title: Technology and economic inequality effects on international trade
Abstract: The notion that technology plays a key role in explaining trade performed was supported
	in the last decades by many empirical studies. In this paper we use a different perspective
	trying to analyse the effects of technology and economic inequalities on international trade
	inequalities. The theoretical framework where we built our empirical analysis is the technological
	gap aproach. We considered eight European countries and 13 manufacture industries
	in the time period 1995-2002. We made a panel data model with a cross-sectional
	unit of analysis: the Euclidean distance among countries in each industry. We considered
	the Euclidian distance as a proxy of inequality among countries in each industry. We observed
	that technology and economic inequalities affect trade inequality and that the effect
	depends on the technological contend of each industry.
Keywords: Technology inequality, trade inequality, Euclidean distance, technological contend.
Creation-Date: 2009 
Length: 26 pages
Number:
 0902
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