Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …

and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current financial world crisis, hourly labor productivity …

technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers …. I introduce a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and I use this framework to … directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …