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Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion
Keller, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or … industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is used which encompasses most of the world's innovative activity at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124371
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Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade
Cuñat, Alejandro; Maffezzoli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
factors in the world makes worldwide factor price equalization impossible, and leads countries to group in two diversification … countries. Moreover, it does not necessarily yield convergence in levels for identically parameterized economies. All in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504435
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Persistence and Mobility in International Trade
Proudman, James; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
The theoretical literature on endogenous growth and international trade suggests that comparative advantage is endogenous. Sector-specific learning by doing and technology transfer respectively provide reasons why initial patterns of international specialization may persist or exhibit mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067579
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Wage Premia and Skill Upgrading in Italy: Why Didn't the Hound Bark?
Manasse, Paolo; Stanca, Luca; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper presents firm level evidence on the dynamics of non-manual wage premia and employment shares in Italian manufacturing during the nineties. We find that the relative stability of aggregate wage premia and employment shares hides offsetting disaggregate forces. First, while technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504296
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Trade, Wages, and Superstars
Manasse, Paolo; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We study the effect of 'globalization' on wage inequality. Our 'global' economy resembles Rosen's (1981) 'Superstars …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792108
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792213
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Global View of Economic Growth
Ventura, Jaume - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
, it is possible to identify a variety of channels through which trade affects the evolution of world income and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666914
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Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth
Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross; Michalopoulos, Stelios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We model technological and financial innovation as reflecting the decisions of profit maximizing agents and explore the implications for economic growth. We start with a Schumpeterian endogenous growth model where entrepreneurs earn monopoly profits by inventing better goods and financiers arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528522
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Agricultural Productivity Growth and Escape from the Malthusian Trap
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia; Kögel, Tomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Industrialization allowed the industrialized world of today to escape from a regime characterized by low economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791731
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Knowledge Spillovers at the World's Technology Frontier
Keller, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global … spillovers favour convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of …&D expenditures in the world's seven major industrialized countries between 1970 and 1995. First, I find that the scope of technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497902