Relating the Knowledge Production Function to Total Factor Productivity: An Endogenous Growth Puzzle

April 1, 2005

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Frederick L Joutz, and Yasser Abdih. Relating the Knowledge Production Function to Total Factor Productivity: An Endogenous Growth Puzzle, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

The knowledge production function is central to R&D-based growth models. This paper empirically investigates the knowledge production function and intertemporal spillover effects using cointegration techniques. Time-series evidence suggests there are two long-run cointegrating relationships. The first captures a long-run knowledge production function; the second captures a long-run positive relationship between TFP and the knowledge stock. The results indicate the presence of strong intertemporal knowledge spillovers and that the long-run impact of the knowledge stock on TFP is small. This evidence is interpreted in light of existing theoretical and empirical evidence on endogenous growth.

Subject: Productivity, Spillovers, Stocks, Total factor productivity, Vector autoregression

Keywords: Growth rate, Production function, WP

Publication Details

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39
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Working Paper No. 2005/074
Stock No:

WPIEA2005074
ISBN:

9781451860931
ISSN:

1018-5941

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