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Vienna Workshop
Papers presented at, and background materials for presentations at the DIME RAL3 workshop in Vienna, WIIW, 2-4 February 2006.
An Outline of Evolutionary Growth Model Building for V4 Group
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 1 February, 2006 - 21:56.
The implications of the innovative and technological capability-accumulation paths for the inter-country differences in operational performance improvement in the V4 group from their evolutionary perspective in EU25 are central to this paper. read more »
Attract FDI! - A Universal Golden Rule? Empirical Evidence for Europe and Asia
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 18 January, 2006 - 21:12.
In this paper we address the question whether FDI is an important channel for productivity catching-up or whether FDI itself is attracted by productivity growth. This has important implications for industrial policy measures as well as for specialisation structures and the development of comparative advantages over time. read more »
Competitiveness and market shares in High tech Industries: a comparative study between US and EMU
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 27 January, 2006 - 17:30.
Do Important Home Made Innovations Affect Productivity Growth? Some Industry Level Explorations
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 5 January, 2006 - 21:08.
International differences in productivity performance are often attributed to differences in innovative performance. Much empirical work supports this contention, but problems in quantifying innovative output prevent researchers from drawing a clear picture. read more »
Knowledge and technology diffusion, international specialisation and competitiveness of the new EU Member Countries.
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 25 January, 2006 - 08:15.
The paper addresses the international specialisation and competitiveness of the new EU member countries over the last decade, with a focus on the role of knowledge and technology diffusion in upgrading their trade performance. read more »
Technological Specialization and the Composition of Export flows - An analysis of Swedish Regions' Trade with Europe
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 24 January, 2006 - 09:32.
The present paper examines regional technological specialization and its effect on trade flows. read more »
Technology dynamics and macroeconomic policies in the accession countries
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 27 January, 2006 - 17:20.
There is an abundance of studies on the way technological change influences macroeconomic growth, but the question how macroeconomic policies affect technological change is largely unexplored. read more »
The Growth of Industrial Sectors: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 31 January, 2006 - 10:09.
In this paper, we study the growth rates of 4-digit sectors in U.S. manufacturing. Two measures of size (value of shipments, value added) are considered, for each of the 38 years (1959-1996) of a sample of 458 4-digit sectors, drawn from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity database. read more »
The Technological Position of European Countries in Historical Perspective: Catching Up, Agglomeration and Path-Dependency
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 1 February, 2006 - 21:50.
This paper investigates whether there has been a long run tendency for technological activity to agglomerate or diffuse across European countries over the period 1890-1995. The issue is discussed with reference to the literature on convergence in growth theory and the cumulative and differentiated nature of technological change in evolutionary economics. read more »
Toward an understanding of industrial development from an evolutionary perspective
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 1 February, 2006 - 22:02.
The use of agent-based modelling allows to analyse macroeconomic behaviour as an outcome of heterogeneous micro behaviour and interactions. read more »