China has experienced a period of tremendous economic growth in recent years. In an attempt to explain this development, several existing growth-accounting studies reveal that impressively high rates of productivity growth have been at the heart of China's performance. This study investigates to...

Der Beitrag berichtet über den Inhalt der Tagung „Analysen und Politik für Ostdeutschland – aus der Forschung des IWH“ am 21. September 2011, die – wie bereits die vier Vorgängerveranstaltungen seit 2007 – ein wirtschaftspolitisches Fachpublikum mit neuen Forschungsergebnissen des...

Am 19. September 2012 fand im IWH die Konferenz „Von der Transformation zur europäischen Integration – Ostdeutschland und Mittelosteuropa in der Forschung des IWH“ statt. Im Fokus der Veranstaltung, die dem Wissenstransfer und Austausch mit einem wirtschaftspolitisch interessierten...

Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growthand qualitative transformations of the economic system. At the sectoral level, suchqualitative transformations become manifest as variations in the sectoral composition ofproduction. Following the implementation of...

China has experienced a period of tremendous economic growth in recent years. In an attempt to explain this development, several existing growth-accounting studies reveal that impressively high rates of productivity growth have been at the heart of China's performance. This study investigates to...

The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations...

Endogenous growth theory assigns an important role for entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. This paper sets to formally test the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth. Entrepreneurship is represented by a number of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is...

Das DIW Berlin hat die Wachstumswirkungen von Investitionen in Forschung und Entwicklung in Deutschland und weiteren OECD-Ländern untersucht. Demnach führt ein Anstieg des Wachstums der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Forschungsausgaben um einen Prozentpunkt kurzfristig zu einer Erhöhung des Wachstums...

This paper explores the role of managerial capital and business research and development (R&D) in fostering multifactor productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition to trade openness, an economy’s speed of...

Alan Krueger (1999) provides a measure of "raw" labor's share for the US postwar economy based on Mincerian regressions using Census data on individual earnings, schooling, and work experience. He finds that raw labor's share fell by over 8 percent from 1959 through 1996 to under 5 percent of...