Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local …, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical … technology adoption would increase the output per worker of the average non-OECD country relative to the US from 0.19 to 0 …