Sommeregger, Christian; Hammer, Christoph; Bekesi, Daniel; … - European Regional Science Association - 2011
This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity (TFP) in Europe. Regional patent stocks are used as a proxy for knowledge, and TFP is measured in terms of a superlative index. We follow Fischer et. al (2008) by using a...