TY - JOUR
T1 - R&D spillovers through student flows, institutions, and economic growth: What can we learn from African countries?
AU - Le, Thanh
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - Using modern panel cointegration estimation techniques, this paper examines whether tertiary student flows can effectively transmit technological knowledge from industrialized countries to African countries. The results obtained lend strong support to this hypothesis. In addition, this paper extends the analysis to include institutional variables such as the ease of doing business, legal origins, and religious majority to see if institutional characteristics have any impact on the way knowledge diffusion affecting total factor productivity (TFP). However, it is not clear that institutional differences are important factors that influence the degree of R&D spillovers and, hence, the TFP of African countries.
AB - Using modern panel cointegration estimation techniques, this paper examines whether tertiary student flows can effectively transmit technological knowledge from industrialized countries to African countries. The results obtained lend strong support to this hypothesis. In addition, this paper extends the analysis to include institutional variables such as the ease of doing business, legal origins, and religious majority to see if institutional characteristics have any impact on the way knowledge diffusion affecting total factor productivity (TFP). However, it is not clear that institutional differences are important factors that influence the degree of R&D spillovers and, hence, the TFP of African countries.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84855365271&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2011.00571.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2011.00571.x
M3 - Article
VL - 59
SP - 115
EP - 130
JO - SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
JF - SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
SN - 0036-9292
IS - 1
ER -