revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During technological …

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 …

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …

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