Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology …, and falls with distance to the North; ii) an increase of LAC's ETG to East Asia's levels raises TFP by 165%, fully … gaps; and iv) South America’s loss of TFP relative to Mexico associated with its greater distance to US-Canada (both Europe …