Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2006
This paper investigates the international transmission of productivity shocks in a sample of five G7 countries. For … each country, using long-run restrictions, we identify shocks that increase permanently domestic labor productivity in … fall when its output grows, thus providing a mechanism to contain di¤erences in national wealth when productivity levels do …