Comin, Diego; Hobijn, Bart; Rovito, Emilie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
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 … across technologies. The productivity differentials between the state of the art technologies that we consider and the ones …