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How New York State's agriculture industry is staying competitive
Cowell, Margaret; Deitz, Richard (2005-04)
We examine some of the challenges facing New York's agriculture industry and outline some innovative responses. We distinguish between two types of agriculture: commodities and value-added consumer foods. We show that commodities are a small fraction of the agriculture industry in New York State and are not a growing market segment, while value-added goods are the primary products of New York farms and represent a market segment that is growing significantly. We then briefly discuss important strategies that agricultural producers are using to remain competitive, including the adoption of ...
The Regional Economy of Upstate New York , Issue Spr

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Technology, trade and growth: some empirical findings
Connolly, Michelle P. (1997)
International patent data for 39 countries from 1970 to 1985 are used to create proxies for imitation and innovation. Domestic imitation and innovation both appear to depend positively on high technology imports from developed countries, intellectual property rights, and the size of the economy. Additionally, transportation and communication infrastructure and quality adjusted research effort are found to contribute positively to domestic innovation. Finally, growth in real per capita GDP is positively related to physical capital stock growth, foreign and domestic innovation, and negatively ...
Research Paper , Paper 9727

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Skilled labor -- augmenting technical progress in U.S. manufacturing
Lim, Jong-Soo; Kahn, James A. (1997)
This paper examines the role of skilled labor in the growth of total factor productivity. We use panel data from manufacturing industries within the United States to assess the extent to which productivity growth in yearly cross-sections of U.S. manufacturing industries is tied to industry shares of skilled labor inputs. We find evidence of an explosion in skilled-labor augmenting technological progress during the period from approximately 1972 to 1981, which precedes a period of suddenly increasing wage inequality and rapid growth in the relative wages of educated and experienced workers. We ...
Research Paper , Paper 9738

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Technological diffusion through trade and imitation
Connolly, Michelle P. (1997)
An endogenous growth model is developed demonstrating both static and dynamic gains from trade for developing nations due to the beneficial effects of trade on imitation and technological diffusion. The concept of learning-to-learn in both imitative and innovative processes is incorporated into a quality ladder model with North-South trade. Domestic technological progress occurs via innovation or imitation, while growth is driven by technological advances in the quality of domestically available inputs, regardless of country of origin. In the absence of trade, Southern imitation of Northern ...
Staff Reports , Paper 20

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Skilled labor-augmenting technical progress in U.S. manufacturing
Kahn, James A.; Lim, Jong-Soo (1998)
This paper examines the role of skilled labor in the growth of total factor productivity. We use panel data from manufacturing industries to assess the extent to which productivity growth in yearly cross section is tied to industry shares of skilled labor inputs. We find robust evidence that productivity growth was increasingly concentrated in high-skill industries during a unique ten-year period beginning in the early 1970s. We do not find any positive association of productivity growth with new capital investment.
Staff Reports , Paper 47

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The use of long-run restrictions for the identification of technology shocks
Francis, Neville; Owyang, Michael T.; Theodorou, Athena T. (2003)
We survey the recent empirical literature using long run restrictions to identify technology shocks. We provide an illustrative walkthrough of the long-run restricted vector autoregression (VAR) methodology in a bivariate framework. Additionally, we offer an alternative identification of technology shocks that can be imposed by restrictions on the long-run impulse responses. Our results from this methodology compare favorably to the empirical literature that uses structural VARs to identify technology.
Working Papers , Paper 2003-010

Discussion Paper
The role of trade in technology diffusion
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres (1996)
This paper develops a two-country model in which trade is central to the process by which technology diffuses from the innovating country (North) to the backward country (South). Innovation in North leads to the introduction of higher-quality equipment goods that South can import only after some resources have been spent to adapt those equipment goods to the local conditions of South. Barriers to trade and policies that increase the cost of adapting equipment goods to the local environment decrease the rate of technology adoption, leading to a lower steady state relative income level in ...
Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics , Paper 114

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Changing technology trends, transition dynamics and growth accounting
Pakko, Michael R. (2005)
The technology growth trends that underlie recent productivity patterns are investigated in a framework that incorporates investment-specific technological progress. Structural-break tests and regime-shifting models reveal the presence of a downward shift in TFP growth in the late 1960s and an upward shift in investment-specific technology growth in the mid-1980s. In both cases, these breaks precede observed changes in labor productivity growth by several years. Simulations of technology growth shocks in a basic neoclassical model show that induced patterns of capital accumulation are ...
Working Papers , Paper 2000-014

Journal Article
Nano what?
Kessler, Marla L. (1994-04)
Nanotechnology may be the technology of tomorrow.
Cross Sections , Volume 11 , Issue Spr , Pages 13-15

Working Paper
International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain (2003)
A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to efficient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with relative consumptions across countries. This paper shows that a model with incomplete markets and a low price elasticity of imports can account for these properties of real exchange rates. The low price elasticity stems from introducing distribution services, which drive a wedge between producer and consumer prices and lowers the impact of terms-of-trade changes on optimal agents' decisions. In the authors' model, two very ...
Working Papers , Paper 03-19

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