The paper examines the relation between industrial mix and regional productivity growth. For this purpose, a dynamic model of the open economy with differentiated sectoral knowledge formation and incomplete interregional knowledge diffusion is constructed. The theoretical framework is first used...

Der Autor der vorliegenden Dissertation geht der Frage nach, welchen Einfluss technologische Spillover-Effekte auf das Wirtschaftswachstum haben, und ob ihre Existenz staatliche Eingriffe im Bereich von Forschung und Entwicklung (F&E) rechtfertigen kann. Im Rahmen der vorgenommenen theoretischen...

In an interesting and influential paper Robert Lucas (1993) considering the experience of East Asian small economies, suggests that on the job" learning could be the principal engine of their miraculous growth in the last 20 years. In this paper I develop an overlapping generation model where on...

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth...