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across the world. We do so by calculating how many years ago these technologies were used in the U.S. at the same intensity …
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This paper presents a new data set on the diffusion of about 115 technologies in over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to uncover general patterns of technology diffusion. Our main 5 findings are as follows: (i) Once the intensive margin is measured,...
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This paper examines whether management changes caused by the entry of the baby boom into the workforce explain the US productivity slowdown in the 1970s and resurgence in the 1990s. Lucas (1978) suggests that the quality of managers plays a significant role in determining output. If there is...
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the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy. During the past 25 years, the four countries have also … technology (ICT). The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable …
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We use data from the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) database to perform preliminary empirical analysis … of the interplay between quality and quantity of finance in accounting for the output growth of ten sectors. We review … growth. Our analysis looks at the finance-growth nexus in 41 economies, including 11 East Asian and 9 Latin American …
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countries of sub-Sahara Africa and elsewhere, and many of the latter are not only falling behind the world leaders, but have … improvements in income per capita. Two general explanations have been offered to account for the observed patterns of growth. One … different models of the growth process and different assumptions about the underlying data. Although different models of growth …
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This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge … flows to firm-level data on TFP growth. Our data measure the information flows often considered important, especially by … empirically important sources of knowledge flows? (b) to what extent do such flows contribute to TFP growth? (c) do such flows …
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Recent academic papers have shown that the Japanese sovereign debt situation is not sustainable. The puzzle is that the bond rate has remained low and stable. Some suggest that the low yield can be explained by domestic residents' willingness to hold Japanese government bonds (JGBs) despite its...
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What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world … distances between populations, and document how such distances, relative to the world's technological frontier, act as barriers …
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The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the …
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