Abstract
This paper explores whether conducting scientific and technical (S&T) research reduces the volatility of output growth. The paper finds robust evidence that output volatility is significantly lowered by a country's production of S&T publications. The results show that the effect of S&T publications on output volatility is particularly strong in middle-income, OECD and other high-income countries. However, for East-Asian, low-income and sub-Saharan African countries the effect is either weak or absent. These results provide strong evidence that not only OECD and other high-income countries are actively engaged in S&T research, emerging developing countries are also conducting S&T research, which is effective in reducing output volatility. The results are robust to adding a host of control variables, various subsamples and different estimation techniques.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | E68-E88 |
Journal | Bulletin of Economic Research |
Volume | 70 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2018 |