productivity (TFP) of cotton to other major crops (wheat, rice, and corn) in China between 1990 and 2015, showing that the TFP … of Bt cotton process in China. To further investigate the decline of TFP in the early stages of Bt cotton adoption, using … cotton. In addition, we illustrate the occurrence of a learning process as GM technology diffuses throughout China: after …

This dissertation uses the large negative shock to the British cotton textile industry, caused by the U.S. Civil War … leading theory of directed technical change, introduced by Acemoglu (2002). I show that the shortage of U.S. cotton increased … innovation in technologies related to Indian cotton, the main alternative, and increased the relative price of Indian cotton …

I study the slow adoption of ring spinning in Great Britain's cotton industry at the end of the 19th century, which has …; Lazonick, 1981, 1981b). To this purpose I use firm-level data from all of Lancashire's cotton firms over several years. The … data are from Worrall's The Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Directory for the years 1885, 1886–1887, 1890, 1894, 1902 …