TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cervellati, Matteo
AU  - Naghavi, Alireza
AU  - Toubal, Farid
        TI  - Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption
        PY  - 2013/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7132
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7132
        AB  - We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should accelerate technology adoption if coupled with democratization but may lead to a slow down if these regime changes are imbalanced. We use panel data on technology adoption at the sectoral level for the period 1980-2000 by exploiting within country variation and the heterogenous timing of openness and democratization. The results document the existence of robust positive interactions between these institutional changes for technology adoption and productivity growth.
        KW  - technology adoption
KW  - political economy theory
KW  - democratization
KW  - trade openness
KW  - sector level panel data
KW  - cross-country analysis
        ER  -