A re-examination of the technological catching-up hypothesis across OECD industries

Economic Modelling

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 967-977

  Boussemart, Jean Philippe ^a   Briec, Walter ^b   Cadoret, Isablelle ^c   Tavéra, Christophe ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Catching up; M lmquist productivity change index; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749984468     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2006.04.014     Document Type: Article

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