Technology Spillover through Trade and TFP Convergence: 120 Years of Evidence for the OECD Countries

Jakob Madsen

No 05-01, EPRU Working Paper Series from Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics

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.

Keywords: technology spillovers; imports; TFP convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 E22 E23 O11 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2005-02
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