R&D Spillovers and Global Growth

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Tamim Bayoumi

International Monetary Fund (IMF); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

David T. Coe

International Monetary Fund (IMF); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: May 1996

Abstract

We examine the growth promoting roles of R&D, international R&D spillovers, and trade in a world econometric model. A country can raise its total factor productivity by investing in R&D. But countries can also boost their productivity by trading with other countries that have large "stocks of knowledge" from their cumulative R&D activities. We use a special version of MULTIMOD that incorporates R&D spillovers among industrial countries and from industrial countries to developing countries. Our simulations suggest that R&D, R&D spillovers, and trade play important roles in boosting growth in industrial and developing countries.

Keywords: Productivity, R&D, Spillovers, North-South

JEL Classification: 031, 040

Suggested Citation

Bayoumi, Tamim and Coe, David T., R&D Spillovers and Global Growth (May 1996). IMF Working Paper No. 96/47, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=882947

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