Aiello, Francesco; Cardamone, Paola - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 23 (2012) 3, pp. 205-220
This paper assesses the impact of Research and Development (R&D) efforts on production in the North and Centre-South of Italy by using a panel of 1,203 manufacturing firms over the period 1998–2003. The estimations are based on a nonlinear translog production function augmented by a measure of...