Importing technology

Francesco Caselli and Daniel Wilson

No 2003-04, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make three contributions. First, we document large differences in investment composition. Second, we explain these differences as being based on each equipment type's intrinsic efficiency, as well as on its degree of complementarity with other factors whose abundance differ across countries. Third, we examine the implications of investment composition for development accounting, i.e., for explaining the cross-country variation in income per capita.

Keywords: Technology; Imports; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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Published in Journal of Monetary Economics 51 (January 2004), pp. 1-32.

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