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Immigration and international prices
(2010-02)
This paper considers the relation between immigration and prices for a large number of cities
across the world over the period from 1990 to 2006. Aggregate immigration ratios are shown
to have a negative impact on ...
R&D-induced growth in the OECD?
(2001)
I use aggregate and industry-level data for a group of OECD countries for
the period 1973 to 1991 to estimate a system implied by a model of R&Dinduced growth that relates R&D intensity, productivity, and output growth. ...
International medical technology diffusion
(2005-02)
Does medical technology originating in countries close to the technology frontier have a significant impact on health outcomes in countries distant from this frontier? This paper considers
a framework where lagging countries ...
What determines technology diffusion across frontiers? R&D content, human capital and institutions
(2015)
This paper examines the determinants of international technology diffusion across a sample of 127 countries for the
period 1961-2011. We measure technology diffusion by the importation of two capital goods categories that ...
Productivity and prices in Europe: micro-evidence for the period 1975 to 1990
(2004-09)
In the absense of frictionless trade, domestic productivity will be a major determinant of prices. Using repeated cross-sections of absolute prices of individual goods across European countries, I find that products of an ...
Understanding European real exchange rates
(2001)
We study good-by-good deviations from the Law-of-One-Price for over 1,800 retail goods and services between all European Union (EU) countries for the years
1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990. We find that for each of these years, ...
Immigration and international prices: An initial assessment
(2011-02)
Using prices from a number of cities across the world during 1990-2006, this paper shows that there exists a negative impact of immigration on prices. The estimated absolute elasticity of prices with respect to immigration ...