This research shows that linguistic differences can obstruct the diffusion of technology and contribute to disparities in living standards between countries. I use a new measure of lexical similarity known as the normalized Levenshtein distance to show that lexical distances closely track...

Income inequality has been growing since the mid-1980s, with tremendous intensification in India's degree of openness and technological breakthrough. In this context, this study attempts to analyse two questions: whether trade openness, financial openness and technology diffusion improve or...

This paper develops a theory of total factor productivity differences in a framework of technology diffusion. I show how in countries with tighter borrowing constraints, frontier technologies diffuse more slowly, and old outdated technologies continue to be used. I analyse how countries with...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the technology transfer between public research institutes and users, in particular to measure the absorption intensity of technology within a regional system of innovation. This research uses data from the balance sheets (e.g. turnover, etc.) of the...

The National Council of Research (CNR), the largest public research body in Italy, has, from 1995 to 1998, tried a technological transfer (TT) virtual network with the aim of stimulating and coordinating initiatives for matching the supply of public scientific research and the innovation demand...

The role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been extensively debated in the literature on technology transfers and agricultural production in developing countries. However, few studies offer cross-country evidence on how IPRs affect yield growth, for example, by incentivizing...

This paper examines the impact of NAFTA on trade-related foreign R&D and total factor productivity (TFP) in Mexico. The measures of foreign R&D are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the OECD, OECD-Mexico trade patterns, and input-output relations in Mexico. We find that i) trade with...

This paper examines to what degree trade, FDI and migration promote cellphone usage in developed and developing countries. Since the usage of cellphones requires the installation of costly infrastructure, I analyze the intensive and extensive margin of cellphone diffusion separately. Estimating...

In this paper we shall make use of a new theory of economic systems as networks formed by individuals acting on the basis of their psychology and social position (Markey-Towler, 2016) to obtain a new vision of the diffusion of behavioural change and the role of narratives (Shiller, 2017)...