Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82054 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
EPRU Working Paper Series No. 2005-01
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
Using a new dataset on imports of technology and total factor productivity (TFP) over more than a century for the OECD countries, this paper tests for international technological transmission through trade. The empirical estimates suggest that imports of knowledge have been responsible for an almost 200% increase in TFP over the past century, but that the spillover effect has been highly unevenly distributed across countries, but has contributed to TFP convergence among the OECD countries.
Subjects: 
technology spillovers
imports
TFP convergence
JEL: 
E13
E22
E23
O11
O3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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