Did electricity drive Spain’s “most progressive decade”?
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Technological change; Aggregate Productivity; Spain (country studies) JEL Classification: O33; O47; O52;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2016-11-13 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2016-11-13 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-INO-2016-11-13 (Innovation)
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