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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316866
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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318954
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Endogenous productivity and development accounting
Armenter, Roc; Lahiri, Amartya - 2006
productivity of capital simultaneously. The model induces a simple relationship between the relative price of investment goods and …-five-fold income gaps and sixfold productivity differences between the richest and poorest countries in our sample. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283395
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New economy in growth and development
Pohjola, Matti - 2002
The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279209
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Back in business: Industrial policy for emerging economies in the new globalization
Berglöf, Erik; Cable, Vince - 2018
We explore the potential roles of industrial policy in the transition from middle-income to high-income status, and the actual experience of industrial policy in emerging economies. Guided by the conceptual framework of the neo-Schumpeterian approach, we look at industrial policy in the context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064699
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The global welfare impact of China: Trade integration and technological change
Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing - 2013
Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … balanced one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an unbalanced one in which China …'s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352168
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282579
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284033
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Jánossy elmélete az új növekedéselmélet tükrében
Tarján, Tamás - 2010
If Janossy's theory should concisely be drafted, one might say that he had been researching the "real carrier of economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify the "carrier" of development focusing on the systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494419
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Capital flows and endogenous growth
Komarov, Evgenij - 2021
So-called "uphill capital flows", i.e. flows of physical capital from relatively poor to rich countries, are a new phenomenon with yet unclear impact. We develop a unified framework incorporating economic institutions, human capital and physical capital to study the interaction of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745132