Die technologische Überlegenheit der marktwirtschaftlichen Volkswirtschaften gegenüber den ehemaligen Planwirtschaften Osteuropas legt den Gedanken nahe, daß technischer Fortschritt keine planbare Größe sein kann, sondern das Produkt individuellen Wettbewerbsverhaltens sein muß. In der...

The thesis is organized in a set of studies divided in three chapters. Chapter 2 and 3 focus on the Argentine and Brazilian industrial development empirically and they are based on the Analysis Program of Industrial Dynamics database (PADI) (Katz and Stumpo, 2001). PADI covers 28 manufacturing...

Like many countries responding to climate change, Korea also faces an unprecedented transformation of its power sector into a low-carbon system. To evaluate the most advantageous combination of technologies and necessary policies for achieving the goals of such a transformation, this study...

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R\&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms'...