particular countries to file for non-resident patents in specific foreign economies. Our major contribution is to show that, in … economies with similar export product structures have filed for a larger number of patents. …

regimes. The results point to an important role for patents and other policy choices in driving the diffusion of new …

companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent …

Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also …

productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …

" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …