Battisti, Michele; Vaio, Gianfranco di; Zeira, Joseph - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2012
This paper examines the possibility that a country might follow the global technology frontier partially instead of fully. We develop an empirical test of this possibility, which measures by how much a country follows the frontier. The test shows that indeed most countries do not follow the...