Relative backwardness and technology catching up with scale effects

Sung Jin Kang

doi:10.1007/s00191-002-0123-y

Relative backwardness and technology catching up with scale effects

Sung Jin Kang

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Controlling for capital accumulation from per capita income growth, this paper shows robust scale effects on total factor productivity growth. The estimated speeds of technology catching up are around 2 percent per year. In addition, the empirical analysis confirms the catching up theory, in which the initial relative backwardness and policy variables conducive to technology adoption are statistically significant.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	425-441
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Volume	12
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-002-0123-y
Publication status	Published - 2002 Oct
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adoption capacity
Endogenous growth
Relative backwardness
Scale effects
Technology catching up

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Business, Management and Accounting(all)
Economics and Econometrics

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