Does publicly-financed R&D spill over to private sector productivity growth? We document a robust correlation between … UK public-sector financed R&D disbursed via research councils and market sector total factor productivity growth. …

we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … evidence of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover … spillovers from public R&D spend on research councils, and (c) no evidence of market sector spillovers from public spending on …

, which ignores the potential impact of spillovers on consistent estimation. Using a panel of twelve manufacturing industries … across ten OECD economies, we investigate whether ignoring spillovers leads to bias in the estimated private returns to R …&D. We compare results from a common factor framework, which accounts for spillovers and other unobserved shocks, to those …

This study investigates the role of international spillovers in generating productivity gains for a panel of 24 OECD … characterize the global interdependence implied by international spillovers and the diffusion mechanisms involved. Consistently … with some recent studies in this field, the evidence suggests that there are substantial cross-country spillovers mainly …

productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition …

productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition …

We analyse the relationship between human capital and productivity growth using a five-country multi-industry dataset … average labour productivity, particularly when using our composite human capital measure. We also find some tentative evidence … that multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth is positively related to the use of high-skilled labour. However, externalities …