Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization through the promotion of selected sectors. In this paper...

In den 90er Jahren kam es zu einem weltweiten Boom bei den Direktinvestitionen. Im Gegensatz zu vergleichbaren Entwicklungen in den 80er Jahren haben auch eine Reihe von Entwicklungsländern in erheblichem Umfang Direktinvestitionskapital empfangen. Diese breitere Streuung hat auch...

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total...