This dissertation uses theoretical as well as empirical tools to study determinants of cross-country differences in income growth, focussing on the role of consumer inequality, values, and the diffusion process of technologies. Chapter 1 investigates how household income inequality shapes the...

Against the pressing challenge of climate change, solar photovoltaic technology is widely considered as a clean and renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Landscaping the development of solar technology worldwide, the case of China is prominent, as it experienced a successful catching-up and a...

This thesis deals with the problem of technical change, its forms, causes and effects. It treats certain aspects of this large subject from a perspective that may be labelled as "Classical-Schumpeterian". The aim is to push the evolutionary theory of differential growth a bit further and to...