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This paper examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) using a GB plant-level dataset. Using a systems-GMM approach, it considers the role of the following four plant characteristics: internal and external knowledge; foreign ownership, multi-plant economies of scale and...
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, the contemporaneous links between these variables using three waves of the UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS). Where … increased the probability of exporting. Exporting had no direct impact on whether innovation occurred in either sector. Given … the key role of R&D, innovation and exporting in determining productivity, it is important that government understands …
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different …
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