Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations

Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg
Published Date
Copyright 2012
ISBN 0-226-26035-6
DOI 10.1086/663612
Book: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2011
Book organizers: Jeffrey Frankel & Christopher Pissarides
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics

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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
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Author(s): Enrico Spolaore & Romain Wacziarg
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term...

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