Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36780 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4943
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i) education and governance have a much larger direct effect on TFP in LAC than in DEV, while the opposite holds for the North's R&D; and ii) education and governance have an additional impact on TFP in R&D-intensive industries through their interaction with NRD in LAC but not in DEV. These interaction effects imply that increasing the level of any of the three policy variables - education, governance or openness - result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade, education or governance, are stronger under an increase in two of these three policy variables, and are strongest under an increase in all three variables.
Subjects: 
Trade
technology diffusion
growth
Latin America
JEL: 
F15
O19
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.