Fukao, Kyoji; Inui, Tomohiko; Ito, Keiko; Kim, Young Gak; … - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 9 (2011) 2, pp. 127-150
Focusing on Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, and Chinese firms in the manufacturing sector, this paper examines productivity catch-up at the firm level using the distance from the technology frontier as a direct measure of the potential for catch-up. We also examine the role of absorptive capacity...