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Lobbies and technology diffusion / Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn

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Comin, Diego
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
26 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
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Hobijn, Bart and National Bureau of Economic Research
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"Do lobbies affect technology diffusion and growth? A number of authors have identified the importance of vested interests as a deterrent to technology diffusion and the relevance that this may have for growth. however, the evidence that exists about this mechanism is just anecdotal. In this paper we build a model of lobbying and technology diffusion where the speed of diffusion of new technologies depends on some dimensions of the political regime and on the whether there is an old technology that may be substituted by the new technology. This differential effect of institutions on the diffusion of technologies with a predecessor constitutes the central element of our identification strategy. To implement this test we use technology diffusion data from Comin and Hobijn [2004]. We find that the relevant institutional variables have a differential effect on the diffusion of technologies with a predecessor technology as predicted by the theory. We show that this result is unlikely to be driven by omitted variables, or reverse causality"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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"January 2005."
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Includes bibliographical references (page 26).
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Also available in PDF from the NBER world wide web site (www.nber.org).
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