This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technology spillovers and its … significance for the growth of the OECD countries. For this purpose we estimate a version of the growth model proposed by Benhabib … measurement of international technology spillovers instead of using per capita GDP gap in respect to the leader country as …

We review the literature on the links between technology and international trade. The older literature assumed … relationship between each one of these forms of change in technology with international trade. Apart from integrating much of the … exogenous technologies and focused on their effects on the structure of foreign trade and on welfare. Recently much of the …

This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technology spillovers and its … significance for the growth of the OECD countries. For this purpose we estimate a version of the growth model proposed by Benhabib … measurement of international technology spillovers instead of using per capita GDP gap in respect to the leader country as …

The article reviews Vernon Ruttan's new book, Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and …-war growth experience can be attributed to them. The reviewer finds that this is not Prof. Ruttan's best work, in part because …