Technological-knowledge bias and the industrial structure under costly investment and complementarities
Elena Sochirca,
Oscar Afonso and
Pedro Gil
Economic Modelling, 2013, vol. 32, issue C, 440-451
Abstract:
We develop an extended directed technological change model with vertical and horizontal R&D to analyze the economic growth rate, the technological-knowledge bias and the industrial structure, assuming: (i) complementarities between intermediate goods, and (ii) internal costly investment. We find that complementarities directly affect long-run technological-knowledge bias and relative production, both elements influence the economic growth rate and neither affects the skill premium and the relative number of firms. We also verify that the relationship between the relative supply of skills and both economic growth and the industrial structure suggested by our model is qualitatively consistent with recent empirical data for a number of developed countries.
Keywords: Vertical and horizontal R&D; Technological-knowledge bias; Industrial structure; Complementarities; Costly investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O33 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.02.037
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