This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to estimate a factor augmented productivity equation. We exploit the panel …

growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing …Several recent policy and academic contributions consider that liberalising product markets would foster innovation and … sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a …

information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …

A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a …