R&D and economic growth in Slovenia: A dynamic general equilibrium approach with endogenous growth

Panoeconomicus

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-89

  Verbič, Miroslav ^a   Majcen, Boris ^a   Ivanova, Olga ^b   Čok, Mitja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Endogenous growth; General equilibrium modelling; R D; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953283303     PISSN: 1452595X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/PAN1101067V     Document Type: Article

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