externalities and their impact on regional innovation. We examine MSA-level patent data during the period 1975-2000 and find that … innovation output is higher in regions where large and small firms coexist. The finding is robust to across-region as well as …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …

Throughout the post-war era until 1995 labour productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe’s productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative trade-off between productivity and …

In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity …

-run growth into its underlying drivers. At low frequencies, variations in the growth rate of labor productivity appear to be the …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues … we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … civil or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …