The macroeconomic production function is a traditional key element of modern macroeconomics, as is the more recent knowledge production function which explains knowledge/patents by certain input factors such as research, foreign direct investment or international technology spillovers. This...

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...

Technical change that augments capital and labor input in a non-neutral way plays an important role in explaining the relation between growth and other macroeconomic outcomes. Previous research has shown that restricting technical change to be neutral leads to overestimating the elasticity of...