Catching Up with the Technological Frontier: Micro-level Evidence on Growth and Convergence

In this article, we study how firm heterogeneity influences productivity catching up using plant-level data from Mexico. The article addresses three issues: first, it evaluates the process of convergence towards the global versus the local technological frontier in a middle-income country such as Me...

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Main Authors: Iacovone, Leonardo, Crespi, Gustavo A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5860