of international patents, country-level R&D productivity increases proportionally with the stock of ideas already …). Second, we find that ideas productivity in a given country is constant or declining in the worldwide stock of ideas. Ideas … effects of international knowledge spillovers. Finally, ideas productivity is concave in the size of the R&D workforce and the …

-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

dynamic productivity-based models are used to motivate the empirical exercise. The candidate determinants include productivity … sectoral productivity differentials is estimated with greater precision as long as homogeneity of parameters is imposed upon … most empirically successful model of the real exchange rate includes sectoral productivity measures in the long run …

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

estimated with greater precision. The most empirically successful models include productivity measures, government spend- ing …

country's relative productivity depends upon its capacity to absorb technology. We estimate that, except for the United States …, OECD countries derive almost all of their productivity growth from abroad …

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 …

This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …

-price frontier, attributes almost all the slowdown in total productivity to the rise in relative raw material prices. It is also … shown that part of the apparent productivity riddle has to do with the common use of double-deflated national accounting …