This paper examines the determinants of international technology diffusion across a sample of 127 countries for the period 1961-2011. We measure technology diffusion by the importation of two capital goods categories that embody different R&D content: computers and metalworking machinery. We...

This study reexamines the growth effect of commodity taxation in a variety-expansion model. Integrating endogenous labor supply, a linear utility function for consumption, and an additively separable utility function for consumption and leisure, we derive results that contrast with those of...

This paper used regional panel data for Chinese provinces from 1979 to 2003, and for Japanese prefectures from 1955 to 1998, to estimate the spatial externalities (or spatial multiplier effects) using a production function and Bayesian methodology, and to investigate the long-run behavior of the...

We study implications of persistence of shocks in total factor productivity (TFP) growth under Bayesian framework for a set of African countries over the period 1970-2003. Contrary to convention, we find that stochastic unit root is present for most of the African countries and that there is...

The paper analyzes the effect of a negative population growth rate on per capita income growth using a simple model of semi-endogenous growth. It is shown that there is a non-monotonous relationship between population growth rates and long-run per capita income growth rates. Compared to the case...

In this paper I aim to show through an analysis from a history of economic thought perspective that Harrod's famous model, An Essay in Dynamic Theory (1939), can be considered a fundamental example of cumulative growth circle. Having described the original model, I then go on to examine the...

This note completely characterizes continuous time models with general cash-in-advance constraints in that money is demanded for purchasing not only consumption goods but also for making all or some investments. Examining the three-dimensional dynamics of an exogenous growth model with general...

This paper focuses on the innovation gap between countries in the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) area and its implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro which shows that differences in innovation between...

The choice of the spatial scale of analysis is a problematic issue in applied research, particularly in the literature of regional economic growth. Nevertheless, it is evident that regional scientists have been slow at demonstrating the empirical implications of changes in spatial scale of...

This paper study the relationships between tourism and economic growth by introducing a dynamic model whose ingredients are an economy producing a non-traded consumption good consumed by domestic residents and foreign tourists and a capital good. The model analyses the relationships between...