productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …

Monte Carlo based robustness test is proposed which compares the elasticity of domestic productivity with respect to foreign … larger and explain more of the variation in productivity across countries than if true' bilateral trade patterns are employed …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of … total factor productivity of its trade partners. Following these theoretical developments we estimate the effects of a … country's R&D capital stock and the R&D capital stocks of its trade partners on the country's total factor productivity. We …

&D investment: (1) Are there diminishing returns to inventive activities? (2) What is the relationship between R&D and productivity … between R&D expenditures and growth of output or total factor productivity. The relation is pervasive, though the magnitudes …, there is evidence that R&D as a factor of production affects not only productivity growth but also the demand for …

characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …