diffusion of regional knowledge spillovers. These complementary approaches have, however, rarely been combined. Important … regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the … influence of internal factors and external knowledge and institutional flows on regional economic growth. The empirical results …

three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and TFP growth by using direct survey data on knowledge flows linked to … firm-level TFP growth data. Our knowledge flow data correspond to the kind of information flows often argued, especially by …

The recent work on misallocation argues that aggregate productivity in poor countries is low because various market …

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …

either political equilibriums or inaccurate assumptions about the most cost-effective allocation of the funds, the sources of … weak association between socio-economic disadvantage and European Union funding. Corrections in allocation mechanisms are …