10.15457/JDEVECO_2008
Frensch, Richard
Richard
Frensch
Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
Gaucaite Wittich, Vitalija
Vitalija
Gaucaite Wittich
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Using trade variety measures to identify technical change
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)
2015
Dataset
F10 Trade: General
O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Product variety
Diffusion
Adoption
Technical change
2015
en
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.04.003
10.1016/j.jce.2013.05.002
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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.