Growiec, Jakub; Maræ, £ukasz; Pelle, Dorota - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2009
This paper decomposes productivity growth across highly developed OECD countries in the period 1972-2000 into components attributable to domestic R&D output, a catchup effect, and international technology diffusion via imports of hi-tech products. Two alternative specifications of...