Product Variety and Economic Growth : Empirical Evidence for the Oecd Countries /

This paper uses panel data for 19 OECD countries and finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit...

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Autor Principal: Funke, Michael
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/005
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Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF