How does innovation emerge from normal economic activity? Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity is an original new book which tries to answer this question by reconciling inter-industrial analysis with the study of innovation. This book provides a bridge between economic statics and...

This article investigates the impact of openness and tariff reductions on the technical inventiveness of selected OECD countries. The results suggest that even these simple forms of trade liberalization may, under certain conditions, favour technical inventiveness or creativity, the most...

[eng] This papers argues for theoretical clarification concerning technological change within the French school of regulation. A comparison is made with the economics of technological change of Schumpeterian tradition. Focus on the conditions of balanced growth in the regulation school are...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of omitted variables in testing the long run validity of Wagner's hypothesis. Using UK data for the period 1948 to 1997, this paper first investigates the secular relationship between public spending and economic development in a bivariate...

In this paper we use the exogeneity techniques developed by Engle and Hendry (Journal of Econometrics, 1993, 56, pp. 119-39) and data from three Asian NICs to test the invariance assumption of the export-led growth hypothesis.