as they are used in the countries in our sample. We denote these time lags as technology usage lags and compare them with … lags in real GDP per capita. We find that (i) technology usage lags are large, often comparable to lags in real GDP per … they replace combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that technology usage disparities might …

, technology, and geography, and that none of these alone is sufficient to account for the diverse patterns of global growth. We …

Information flows, and thus information technology (IT) are central to the structure of firms and markets. Using data …

generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the … technological contents, characterized by increasing integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and non … of follow-on patents (subsequent patents that use the same combinations of technology components as the first novel …

coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom … technology response to the shale gas boom results in a significant increase in emissions as the US economy is pushed into a …

many sectors, but they also present new risks from potential misuse. We develop a multi-sector technology adoption model to … optimal adoption is gradual and convex. If social damages are proportional to the productivity gains from the new technology …

question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich … technologies across sectors, which we apply to Indian data. We find that technology adoption greatly amplifies the multipliers …