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Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what...
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In this paper we distinguish different “qualities” of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use ‘quality’ to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...
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diffusion of regional knowledge spillovers. These complementary approaches have, however, rarely been combined. Important … literature by combining in one model R&D, spillovers, and innovation systems approaches. A multiple regression analysis is … regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …
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problem of underinvestment in basic research is confirmed: spillovers of more general knowledge (and in this respect, more …
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This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...
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Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there … are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business … stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general framework showing that technology and product market spillovers have …
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are fixed over reasonably long time periods, but if spillovers have a limited temporal scope then this can be used to …
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The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years …. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive … effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a negative business stealing effects from product market rivals. We develop …
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This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic...
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between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our …
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