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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575616
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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005723169
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Growth in Regions
La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use a newly assembled sample of 1,503 regions from 82 countries to compare the speed of per capita income convergence within and across countries. Regional growth is shaped by similar factors as national growth, such as geography and human capital. Regional convergence is about 2.5% per year,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950694
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Lacombe, Donald J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small businesses may yield substantial economy-wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951106
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon; Weil, David; Storeygard, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087493
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Human Capital and Regional Development
La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of … from model estimation and calibration that entrepreneurial inputs and human capital externalities are essential for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147836
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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951103
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Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers
Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan E.; Crespi, Gustavo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720262
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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity
MAIRESSE, Jacques; Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity … through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950712
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Upstream Product Market Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity
MAIRESSE, Jacques; Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821929