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This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …
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This paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at … technological frontier, and therefore make a contribution to productivity growth through technology transfer. We also find evidence …
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We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …
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We examine the “home bias” of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). We present the first compelling econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has...
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We examine the “home bias” of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). We present the first compelling econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has...
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aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …
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United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …
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We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …
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To analyse the consequences of the changing economic structure of the UK, we need a set of statistics broken down by industry that are consistent with the whole economy measures available from the national accounts. The theory of growth accounting then provides a framework in which the...
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
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