Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth

Bart van Ark is professor in Economics of Productivity and Technology Policy. He is associated with the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, and The Conference Board, a business research organisation in Europe and the United States. Simon K. Kuipers is professor in Macroeconomics and presently Chairman of the Executive Board of the University of Groningen. He is the Honorary Editor of De Economist, Quarterly Review of the Royal Netherlands Economic Association. Gerard Kuper is assistant professor in Macroeconomics. Kuper is associated with the CCSO Centre for Economic Research and research fellow of the Research School on Systems, Organisation and Management at the University of Groningen.

• 1. Introduction.- I Understanding Growth Regimes.- 2. Interpreting the “One Big Wave” in U.S. Long-term Productivity Growth.- 3. Surveying Two Centuries of Dutch Growth, 1807–1995: (Dis)equilibrium Growth Regimes in International Perspective.- 4. Institutions and Economic Growth in Postwar Europe: Evidence and Conjectures.- II Determinants of Productivity.- 5. The Interaction between Business Cycles and Productivity Growth: Evidence from US Industrial Data.- 6. Productivity, Income and Technological Change in the Netherlands: Causes and Explanations of Divergent Trends.- 7. Labour Productivity Growth in Dutch Business Services.- 8. Productivity and Specificity in Factor Inputs.- III Technology Diffusion and Growth.- 9. Knowledge, Technology, and Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution.- 10. Human Capital, R&D, Productivity Growth and Assimilation of Technologies in the Netherlands.- 11. The Effect of Pharmaceutical Utilisation and Innovation on Hospitalisation and Mortality.- 12. Productivity, R&D Spillovers and Trade.- 13. Do Technology Spillovers Matter for Growth?.- Author Index.