Economic Growth, TFP Convergence and the World Export of Ideas: A Century of Evidence
研究了120年间16个OECD国家的国际专利存量对全要素生产率的影响，发现国际专利存量通过进口渠道的知识溢出显著促进了经济增长和生产率收敛。
Abstract This paper examines the effect of international patent stock on total factor productivity for 16 OECD countries over the past 120 years. The results show that the international patent stock is highly influential for economic growth and, together with knowledge spillovers through the channel of imports, has contributed significantly to TFP growth and σ‐convergence among the OECD countries over the past 120 years.