Cross-country catch-up in the manufacturing sector: Impacts of heterogeneity on convergence and technology adoption

Patrik T. Hultberg (), M. Ishaq Nadiri and Robin Sickles

Empirical Economics, 2004, vol. 29, issue 4, 753-768

Abstract: We analyze how technology transfer from a leading economy affects followers’ productivity growth in manufacturing sectors and Gross Domestic Product. Allowing for heterogeneous technology levels we explore how this impacts rates of catch-up in labor productivity across manufacturing sectors and GDP for 16 OECD nations. Our results indicate that aggregate studies bias downward the estimated rates of catch-up. These rates of catch-up, as well as efficiency levels, also differ across countries. We find that institutional factors such as bureaucratic efficiency are important determinants of the estimated catch-up rates. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004

Keywords: International comparisons; panel data methods; convergence and catch-up in best-practice technologies; O47; O57; C33; C41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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