constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … these constraints force export and innovation activities to become substitutes even when these activities are natural … level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …

We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of … productivity and human capital investments. Using light intensity as an alternative measure for economic activity confirms the …

job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth … has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has …

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 …

sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by knowledge … spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … only influential in the case of wind technology. We also find evidence that public R&D stimulates innovation, particularly …

more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …