The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

intertemporal global welfare maximization. Convergence of the growth rates of technical change in the North and South always occurs …

In this work we update the reviews on endogenous growth theories, after two decades of theoretical and empirical … core topics studied in the growth econometric framework, namely, convergence, identification of growth determinants and … factors responsible for growth differences in the data, the primary focus of this paper is on the last two. We will review …

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins with … describing the basic framework used in recent empirical cross-country growth research. Even though this literature was mainly … inspired by endogenous growth theories, the neoclassical growth model is still the workhorse for cross-country growth empirics …

from the traditional neoclassical growth model. In turn, they seem to support new theories of economic growth which are … growth model. …

Substantive - that have emerged in the empirical literature on international per-capita income and productivity convergence. On … fallacies and (ii) not really helpful for discriminating between neoclassical and endogenous growth models. …

on domestic productivity. The domestic R&D capital stock plays an active role in Western Europe while in the Eastern part … is much less important. Human capital has an overall robust positive influence on TFP. The results confirm that … transition countries seem to gain more in terms of productivity from the international diffusion process than their Western …