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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries

Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014

Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....

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Back in business : industrial policy for emerging economies in the new globalization

Berglöf, Erik; Cable, Vince - 2018

We explore the potential roles of industrial policy in the transition from middle-income to high-income status, and the actual experience of industrial policy in emerging economies. Guided by the conceptual framework of the neo-Schumpeterian approach, we look at industrial policy in the context...

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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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Trade, Technology, Income Distribution and Growth

Zuleta, Hernando - 2012

We modify the standard trade model introducing the possibility of biased technological changes. This model help to explain the falling labor shares as well as the mixed changes in skill premium in developing countries after trade liberalization takes place

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Financial development, globalization, and structural transformation in developing countries

Avoumatsodo, Komla - 2023

sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …

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Explaining Economic Growth in Developed Economies after 1980

Ballesteros, Carlos - 2016

We use the Aguion and Howitt (2009) theoretical model of endogenous economic growth to explain the declining economic growth in developed economies in the period 1981-2009. Aguion and Howitt theoretical framework combines Solownian and Schumpeterian elements in a single scenario, so that...

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Total Public Debt and Growth in Developing Countries

Presbitero, Andrea - 2011

The global crisis and the expansionary government reaction in many countries has revamped the attention of policy makers and academics on the growth effects of large public debts. Recent empirical studies investigate the impact of public debt on growth in advanced and emerging countries. This...

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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?

Schulte, Patrick - 2015

the skill-specific technological frontier subsequently show higher skill-specific productivity growth. For that, the …

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Long-Term Growth and Productivity Projections in Advanced Countries

Cette, Gilbert - 2017

current low productivity and GDP growth in advanced countries. Our projection tool allows for the modelling of technology …

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Do Good Institutions Enhance the Effect of Technological Spillovers on Productivity? Comparative Evidence from Developed and Transition Economies

Krammer, Sorin M. S. - 2017

This paper argues that institutional quality has both direct and indirect (moderating) effects on productivity of … developed and transition economies. The results confirm that good institutions have positive and similar effects on productivity … across the board. Moreover, they moderate the relationship between foreign technological spillovers and productivity …

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