TY  - JOUR
AU  - Comin,Diego A.
AU  - Hobijn,Bart
TI  - Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16378
PY  - 2010
Y2  - September 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16378
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16378.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Diego A. Comin
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/495-5011
E-Mail: dcomin@hbs.edu

Bart Hobijn
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Economic Research Department, Mailstop 1130
101 Market Street, 11th floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: 415 974 2314
Fax: 415 974 2168
E-Mail: bart.hobijn@sf.frb.org
M1  - published as Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn. "Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth," in Daron Acemoglu and Michael Woodford, editors, "NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2010, Volume 25" University of Chicago Press (2011)

M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2011-02-01
AB  - In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies. This acceleration is correlated with the incidence of U.S. economic aid and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these recipient countries during the postwar decades.
ER  -