activity, an advanced export structure and a large domestic market. However, the rapid growth in world trade in this period did … uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between … countries, while chapter 3 extends the analysis to include international trade - or "competitiveness" - as well. The main …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists …. <i>Power and Plenty</i> fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course …-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very …

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists …. <i>Power and Plenty</i> fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course …-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very …

This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technology spillovers and its … significance for the growth of the OECD countries. For this purpose we estimate a version of the growth model proposed by Benhabib … measurement of international technology spillovers instead of using per capita GDP gap in respect to the leader country as …

We review the literature on the links between technology and international trade. The older literature assumed … relationship between each one of these forms of change in technology with international trade. Apart from integrating much of the … exogenous technologies and focused on their effects on the structure of foreign trade and on welfare. Recently much of the …

change can display rapid growth, as in modern growth ‘miracles.’ In these economies policies that promote technology inflows …<Para ID="Par1">This paper studies the interaction between technology, a public input that flows in from abroad, and … human capital, a private input that is accumulated domestically, as twin engines of growth in a developing economy. The …