Technology usage lags

被引：41

作者：

Comin, Diego ^{[1
]}

Hobijn, Bart ^{[2
,3
]}

Rovito, Emilie ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Business, Boston, MA 02163 USA

[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[3] Fed Reserve Bank San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA

[4] Fed Reserve Bank New York, New York, NY 10045 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH | 2008年 / 13卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Technology adoption; Cross-country studies; O33; O47; O57;

D O I：

10.1007/s10887-008-9035-5

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We present evidence on the differences in the intensity with which ten major technologies are used in 185 countries across the world. We do so by calculating how many years ago these technologies were used in the U.S. with the same intensity as they are used in the countries in our sample. We denote these time lags as technology usage lags and compare them with lags in real GDP per capita. We find that (i) technology usage lags are large, often comparable to lags in real GDP per capita, (ii) usage lags are highly correlated with lags in per-capita income, and (iii) usage lags are highly correlated across technologies. The productivity differentials between the state-of-the-art technologies that we consider and the ones they replace, combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that differences in the intensity of usage of technologies might account for a large part of cross-country TFP differentials.

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页码：237 / 256

页数：20

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