Kahraman Kalyoncu
Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Huseyin Kalyoncu
Department of Ec�nomics, �ukurova University, Adana, Turkey
ABSTRACT
The main idea of catch up hypothesis is how rapidly follower economies tend to catch the leader since imitation and implantation of discoveries are cheaper than innovation. Therefore limitation and implementation of discoveries tends to generate convergence even though diminishing returns to capital or to R&D do not apply. If the diffusion of technology occurs gradually, then we get another reason to predict a pattern of convergence across economics, which we estimate in this study. The estimation indicates that follower economics tend to catch up the leader. Hence, we could say imitation and implementation of discoveries generate convergence in an empirically.
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Kahraman Kalyoncu and Huseyin Kalyoncu, 2002. An Empirical Work on Catch up by the Diffusion of Technology. Journal of Applied Sciences, 2: 667-669.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2002.667.669
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2002.667.669
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2002.667.669
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2002.667.669
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