In this paper, we aim to bring the debate on the global productivity slowdown – which has largely been conducted from a … macroeconomic perspective – to a more micro-level. We show that a particularly striking feature of the productivity slowdown is not … so much a lower productivity growth at the global frontier, but rather rising labour productivity at the global frontier …

Panel data is used to investigate the extent of R&D spillovers between OECD countries, and the importance of barriers … to technology adoption in affecting the benefits of such spillovers. Our results indicate that countries with less … regulated goods and labour markets benefit more from foreign R&D. -- R&D spillovers ; technology adoption ; economic growth …

productivity differ in the two solutions. Thus, optimal policy intervention has no effect on long-run growth rates but affects …

is treated as a Poisson-type cyclic stochastic process. The technology spillovers effect acts as a driving force of …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or …-off explains why higher growth of productivity and income per capita are associated with lower population growth. The medium …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or … higher growth of productivity and income per capita are associated with lower population growth. The medium-run prospects for …