Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general … accelerate technology adoption if coupled with democratization but may lead to a slow down if these regime changes are imbalanced … variation and the heterogenous timing of openness and democratization. The results document the existence of robust positive …