Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth /

This paper extends Grossman and Helpman's seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are foun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chong, Alberto
Other Authors: Zanforlin, Luisa
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/161
Online Access:Full text available on IMF