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exporters generate positive spillovers for domestically-oriented producers? In this paper we analyze the causal links between …
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exporters, either through learning by doing or through establishing buyer- supplier linkages. We pursue the idea that spillovers … sources of spillovers: export activity in general and the specific activities of multinational enterprises. We use a simple … manufacturing plants, we find evidence consistent with spillovers from the export activity of multinational enterprises but not with …
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I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers in US cities by estimating plant-level production functions. I use a …, spillovers between plants that rarely interact are zero, while spillovers between plants that often interact are significant … equilibrium forces and spillovers, the productivity gains generated by human capital spillover are offset by increased labor costs …
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harmonization in equalizing income levels of countries that start off from different initial income positions. Knowledge spillovers … for the internalization of knowledge spillovers may or may not be necessary. These considerations constitute the basis for …
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enterprises also predicts geographically localized knowledge spillovers at least for products in development. However, when we …
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Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but standard models of intrahousehold allocation imply that reducing the opportunity cost of girls' schooling might also be effective. I test this prediction using quasi-experimental...
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This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico …
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We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to...
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In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the … seven largest industrialized countries (G-7); (2) analyze the effect of spillovers on the structure of production, i.e., the … R&D investment as well as the social rates of return of foreign R&D spillovers. To achieve the objectives of this study …
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We examine the growth promoting roles of R&D, international R&D spillovers, and trade in a world econometric model. A … version of MULTIMOD that incorporates R&D spillovers among industrial countries and from industrial countries to developing … countries. Our simulations suggest that R&D, R&D spillovers, and trade play important roles in boosting growth in industrial and …
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