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

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Jakob B. Madsen (Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen)

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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.

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Paper provided by Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics in its series EPRU Working Paper Series with number 05-01.

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Keywords: technology spillovers; imports; TFP convergence;

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