of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has … guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth - both empirical and theoretical …

much better than the Barro and Lee (1996) or Nehru et al (1995) series in a number of growth specifications. We interpret … the (lack of) relationship between educational investment and growth. Using our preferred empirical specification, we also …

develop a simple descriptive growth model which allows for factor accumulation, technological diffusion and rate effects from …

This paper analyses the sources of post-war growth and convergence in the OECD using an extension of Mankiw, Romer and … process of technological catch-up. The results indicate that the impact of R&D investment on growth has been significant … of the sample period. The exhaustion of this effect, moreover, may help explain the slowdown of growth and convergence …

our series and a number of previously available data sets and examine their performance in several growth specifications … growth regressions. Using an extension of the classical errors in variables model, we construct a set of meta-estimates of …

. Growth is sustained by the development of new varieties of intermediate goods. Innovation is risky and the probability of … faster growth. Under plausible assumptions, the resulting changes in factor prices lower the relative cost of monitoring …

This Paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global … geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering … egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

illustrate their significance for growth accounting using the well known model of Greenwood, Hercowitz and Krusell (1997), who … find that about 60% of economic growth can be attributed to investment-specific technical change (ISTC). When we … post-war US growth. …

, the cross-sectional behaviour of the world economy is similar to that of existing exogenous growth models. Cross … terms of trade. Our estimates imply that, all else equal, a 1% faster growth is associated with approximately a 0.7% decline …