We address the problem of measuring, in the absence of reliable indexes of technology levels, how much of the … convergence we observe is due to convergence in technology or in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth model where … technology accumulation in lagging economies depends on their propensity to innovate and on technological spillovers, with …

We address the problem of measuring, in the absence of reliable indices of technology levels, how much of the … convergence we observe is due to convergence in technology or in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth model where … technology accumulation in lagging economies depends on their propensity to innovate and on technological spillovers, with …

In this paper we study two closely related issues. First, the role of technology heterogeneity and diffusion in the … pattern of the observed regional heterogeneity in technology and the relevance of this pattern for the econometric analysis of … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …