Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34991 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3383
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP. We allow these contributions to differ and show that openness has a greater impact on TFP growth than R&D. These results imply that the impact of openness on TFP in developing countries is larger than previously obtained in this literature. In other words, developing countries can obtain larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought.
Subjects: 
Technology diffusion
R&D
openness
North-South
JEL: 
F10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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