Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • An overview of the literature
  • Models without diffusion
  • Technology, diffusion, and growth: a key trinomial
  • Models with exogenous diffusion
  • Models with endogenous diffusion
  • An alternative approach: the advantages of continuous-time quantitative methods
  • Econometric estimation
  • Towards a dynamic model of growth and technology
  • The modified model: endogenising human capital
  • Technology diffusion: the SETI model
  • Continuous-time econometric models of regional convergence and the role of spatial interactions
  • Conclusion.