level reached in three decades. The post-1995 technological acceleration, particularly in information technology (IT) and … technology, which also provided consumer surplus without necessarily creating higher productivity, at least within the feasible … permanent sources of American leadership in high-technology industries, as contrasted with the particular post-1995 episode of …

investment by US firms has been hindered. This paper explores the structure of incentives underpinning the German system of …

product market. …

Technological change can increase the productivity of the various factors of production in equal terms or it can be … biased towards a specific factor. We develop an estimator for production functions when productivity is multi-dimensional. We …

&D investment play a key role in explaining firm-level productivity growth. Moreover, the estimated returns to R&D are significantly … from increased foreign sourcing, rather than technology upgrading, illustrating how trade can amplify productivity gains …This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on …

dynamic oligopoly game. We show the importance to account for multiproduction effects through product differentiation when … the product market. We can confirm that firms follow intertemporal production plans for investing in future cost …

-industry externalities, but the nature and the characteristics of the dynamic linkages across manufacturing sectors are not investigated. In …

overall production strategy and productivity trends. In the United States a strategy of standardized mass production led to … high levels of labour productivity and concentration on the development of managerial capabilities, but neglect of the … skills of the shop-floor labour force, while in Britain and Germany concentration on craft production led to greater emphasis …

effects reduce productivity. We provide empirical evidence from two panel data sets of UK manufacturing from 1980-89. We use … data from 81 manufacturing industries and also from 33 engineering industries where there is better information on the …We estimate the impact of skilled and unskilled labour shortages on productivity and wages in the United Kingdom. Skill …

bilateral technology diffusion, whereas foreign direct investment and language skills differences contribute circa 15% each … for technology diffusion, how this has changed over time, and whether international trade, foreign direct investment, and … communication flows serve as important channels of diffusion. The analysis is based on examining the productivity effects of R …