Bitzer, Jürgen; Geishecker, Ingo - EconWPA - 2005
positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import …Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …