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Transition dynamics in vintage capital models : explaining the postwar catch-up of Germany and Japan

Gilchrist, Simon (contributor); … - 2004

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Quantifying embodied technological change

Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001

We estimate the rate of embodied technological change directly from plant-level manufacturing data on current output and input choices along with histories on their vintages of equipment investment. Our estimates range between 8 and 17 percent for the typical U.S. manufacturing plant during the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702136

North-South technological diffusion and dynamic gains from trade

Connolly, Michelle P.; Valderrama, Diego - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2005

This paper studies the transitional dynamics in a quality ladder model of endogenous growth in which North-South trade leads to technological diffusion through reverse engineering of intermediate goods. The concept of learning-to-learn is incorporated into both imitative and innovative...

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Human capital and technology diffusion

Benhabib, Jess; Spiegel, Mark M. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2002

This paper generalizes the Nelson-Phelps catch-up model of technology diffusion. We allow for the possibility that the … pattern of technology diffusion can be exponential, which would predict that nations would exhibit positive catch-up with the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702180

Embodying embodiment in a structural, macroeconomic input-output model

Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001

This paper describes an attempt to build a regression-based system of labor productivity equations that incorporate the effects of capital-embodied technological change into IDLIFT, a structural, macroeconomic input-output model of the U.S. economy. Builders of regression-based forecasting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702185

Is embodied technology the result of upstream R&D? industry-level evidence

Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001

In this paper, I develop an industry-level index of capital-embodied R&D by capturing the extent of research and development directed at the capital goods in which a given industry invests. Compiling and adjusting data from the National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, I construct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702221

Importing technology

Caselli, Francesco; Wilson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2003

We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make three contributions. First, we document large differences in investment composition. Second, we explain these differences as being...

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The role of capital service-life in a model with heterogenous labor and vintage capital

Marquis, Milton H.; Tantivong, Wuttipan; Trehan, Bharat - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2009

We examine how the economy responds to both disembodied and embodied technology shocks in a model with vintage capital … accelerated. We find that embodied technology shocks lead to greater variability (of output, investment and labor allocations …

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Technology diffusion and postwar growth

Comin, Diego; Hobijn, Bart - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2010

and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504596

Growth accounting with misallocation: Or, doing less with more in Singapore

Fernald, John; Neiman, Brent - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2010

real factor prices (the dual) can diverge from each other as well as from true technology growth. These distortions … potentially give rise to dynamic reallocation effects that imply that change in technology needs to be measured from the bottom up … aggregate and sectoral technology growth as well as reallocation effects. We also apply our framework to reconcile divergent TFP …

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