Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth

Author/Editor:

Alberto Chong ; Luisa Zanforlin

Publication Date:

October 1, 2000

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are found to allow a country relatively scarce in human capital to benefit from nondecreasing rates of growth through its low-tech sector. The model is tested by using a dynamic panel data approach (Arellano and Bover, 1995). Results are consistent with the predictions of the model and robust to a broad range of definitions of technological intensity.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/161

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

October 1, 2000

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451857801/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1612000

Pages:

31

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