dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

emphasis on technology which can be found in the recent literature, our estimation results indicate that numerical superiority …

this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … countries. Estimates from Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions reveal that the main factors responsible for low rates of technology …

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …