Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more … value from them. We argue that the growing reliance on science in inventions enhances MFT. In addition to higher quality … inventions, reliance on science may enhance gains from trade and reduce the transfer cost of knowledge and other transaction …

country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … author. Through those pathways, diaspora research contributed to China’s 2000-2015 catch-up in science and to global science …

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

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 …

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …

This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … and globalization. To reflect context, as defined by space (geography) and time (history), we control for the distance to … and globalization put forward by Eichengreen and Leblang (2008) for the period 1870-2000. Focusing on the more recent wave …

, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

.Moderating spillovers from the advanced economies during the Great Moderation, the global information technology revolution, the influx of …

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …