Appropriate technology in a Solovian nonlinear growth model

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-133

  Fiaschi, Davide ^a   Lavezzi, Andrea Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convex concave production function; Distribution dynamics; International technological spillovers; Productivity slowdown

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MODELING; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 34447504368     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grm008     Document Type: Article

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