Research Article

THE EFFECT OF R & D SPENDING ON THE MIDDLE INCOME TRAP: PANEL DATA ANALYSIS FOR THE EU AND TURKEY

Volume: 3 Number: 4 October 31, 2016
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THE EFFECT OF R & D SPENDING ON THE MIDDLE INCOME TRAP: PANEL DATA ANALYSIS FOR THE EU AND TURKEY

Abstract

he literature discusses middle-income trap as middle income group of countries can not reach high income group. This problem arises from inability to create sufficient infrastructure during their development process. Therefore countries attempt to increase technological infrastructure-based R&D to reach high income group of countries. This study aims to assess the role R&D on MIT for European Union and Turkey. In this paper effect of R&D on MIT was investigated for EU-28 (Luxembourg, Denmark, Swedish, Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, France, England, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, Slovenia, Greece, Portugal, Malta, Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) and Turkey. Relationship among per capita income, R&D and savings were analyzed by using Westerlund Bootstrap Westerlund Durbin-Hausman cointegration and Hacker and Hatemi-J bootstrap causality in panel data analysis. The result of the study concludes a long term relationship among variables. A unidirectional causality was found from per capita income to R & D. But no causality effect was found from R & D to per capita income and between other variables as well. 

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Primary Language

Turkish

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 31, 2016

Submission Date

August 11, 2016

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Year 2016 Volume: 3 Number: 4

APA
Karanfil, M. (2016). AR-GE HARCAMALARININ ORTA GELİR TUZAĞI ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ: AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ VE TÜRKİYE İÇİN PANEL VERİ ANALİZİ. Journal of Life Economics, 3(4), 219-234. https://doi.org/10.15637/jlecon.146