Code
3F008415
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Applied economics
- Economic history
- Macroeconomics and monetary economics
- Microeconomics
- Tourism
Keywords
R&D
total factor productivity
ageing
Gibbs Sampling
State Space Models
Project description
Our objective is to measure and explain the country-specific evolution in total factor productivity. A key novelty is that we model worldwide technology to be freely available but allow countries to differ in their absorptive capacity. We will further assess the impact of country-specific R&D efforts and demographic trends (ageing) on the level and evolution of their absorptive capacity.