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Weightless Machines and Costless Knowledge: An Empirical Analysis of Trade and Technology Diffusion
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Soloaga, Isidro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper examines the impact of imported technologies on productivity for a sample of developing and transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Southern Mediterranean. These economies are getting more and more integrated to the European Union. The Paper departs from earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504405
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What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes” defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and...
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Machines as Engines of Growth
Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks … unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is the feedback between industrialization and wages. High wages are incentives to … use machines and industrialize, while industrialization raises wages. The model shows that industrialization and growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656232
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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207519
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The Spread of Industry: Spatial Agglomeration in Economic Development
Puga, Diego; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper describes the spread of industry from country to country as a region grows. All industrial sectors are initially agglomerated in one country, tied together by input-output links between firms. Growth expands industry more than other sectors, bidding up wages in the country in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662334
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From Natural Resources to High-tech Production: The Evolution of Industrial Competitiveness in Sweden and Finland
Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper describes and analyses the evolution of industrial competitiveness in Sweden and Finland in a long-term perspective. One part of the Paper looks at the foundations for industrial take-off in Sweden, with some focus on the development of institutions for the creation and dissemination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666460
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China's Great Leap: Forward or Backward? Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster
An, Mark Yuying; Li, Wei; Yang, Dennis Tao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
industrialization. Consequently, it diverted massive amounts of agricultural resources to industry and imposed excessive grain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789139
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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...
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Premature Deindustrialization
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
-industrial economies. The hump-shaped relationship between industrialization (measured by employment or output shares) and incomes has … shifted downwards and moved closer to the origin. This means countries are running out of industrialization opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165656
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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships
Goh, Ai Ting - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production vary inversely with their technological effort....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136533