Using trade variety measures to identify technical change

- Frensch, Richard (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
- Gaucaite Wittich, Vitalija (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)
- JEL:
- Trade: General
- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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Abstract
Motivated by growth models based on the variety of capital goods, recent empirical studies have established links between productivity and several trade-based measures of product variety, carrying the implication that these measures may represent technology. French and Gaucaite-Wittich (2009) study this implication by explicitely proposing the variety of capital goods available for production as a direct measure of the state of technology.
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Frensch, Richard; Gaucaite Wittich, Vitalija (2008). Product variety and technical change. In: Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, Vol. 88(2), pp. 242-257
- ID: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.04.003 (DOI)
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Frensch, Richard; Gaucaite-Wittich, Vitalija (2007). Product Variety and Technical Change. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1005372 (Date posted: August 10, 2007)
- ID: 10.1016/j.jce.2013.05.002 (DOI)
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