BLANCHARD, Pierre; HUIBAN, Jean Pierre; SEVESTRE, Patrick - In: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (2005) 79-80, pp. 461-485
Using a panel of more than 3,100 French corporate groups' affiliates and parent companies, we estimate a production function model where we enable the productivity of a firm to depend on the knowledge produced by the R&D activities of the other companies in the group. We find indeed that a...