Dear all,  

Please join us for the Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) this Wednesday, April 4 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm in CGIS Knafel Room 354. Dany Bahar, a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will give a presentation entitled "International Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations". As always, a light lunch will be provided.

Abstract:  
In this paper we document that the probability that a product is added to a country's export basket is, on average, 65% larger if a neighboring country is a successful exporter of that same product. We interpret our result as evidence of international intra-industry knowledge diffusion. Our results are consistent with the overall consensus in the literature on technology spillovers: diffusion is stronger at shorter distances; is weaker for more knowledge-intensive products; and has become faster over time.

This is joint work with Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo.

An up-to-date schedule for the workshop is available at http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/1208.


Best,
Konstantin

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Konstantin Kashin
Ph.D. Student in Government
Harvard University

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E-mail: kkashin@fas.harvard.edu
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