leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

sustained growth. This transition is inevitable given positive rates of total factor productivity growth. We use a standard …

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …

technology diffusion, with the productivity of imitation modeled by a catch-up function that increases with distance to the … optimally choose to "catch-up" or "fall-back" to a productivity ratio below the frontier …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …