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The Optimal Transfer of Capital and Embodied Technologies to Developing Countries
Hübler, Michael; Lontzek, Thomas S. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
We study the North-South diffusion of technologies embodied in internationally mobile capital in a framework of intertemporal global welfare maximization. Convergence of the growth rates of technical change in the North and South always occurs in the long-run. However, the degree to which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818868
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Avoiding the Trap: The Dynamic Interaction of North-South Capital Mobility and Technology Diffusion
Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper analyzes a stylized model of international capital mobility and diffusion of embodied technologies from North to South. The South can fall behind in terms of technologies or get trapped in a situation, in which it is unable to attract foreign capital and embodied technologies, if its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076090
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Innovation and Productivity in European Industries
Pianta, Mario; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … productivity and export success in European manufacturing industries and firm size classes. The empirical estimates are based on …-sectional estimation methodologies able to account for unobserved industrial characteristics, show that productivity in Europe relies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755207
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Can Oil-led Growth and Structural Change Go Hand in Hand in Ghana? A Multi-sector Intertemporal General Equilibrium Assessment
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886853
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Benchmarking the Future: A Dynamic, Multi-Regional, Multi-Sectoral Trade Model for the Analysis of Climate Policies
Klepper, Gernot; Springer, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
For analyzing the impact of climate change and of international climate policies on the international division of labor and on regional welfare the use of a disaggregated multi–sectoral, multi–regional dynamic computable general equilibrium model is appropriate. This paper discusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755224
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Learning How to Export
Segerstrom, Paul S.; Stepanok, Ignat - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886938
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Entrepreneurship, knowledge, and the industrial revolution
Attar, M. Aykut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs' role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956077
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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs
Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755150
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Do Active Innovation Policies Matter? – Findings from a Survey on the Hong Kong Electronics SMEs
LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566194
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Explaining the East German Productivity Gap ; The Role of Human Capital
Ragnitz, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755231