productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest … cover the fixed costs of sourcing foreign inputs, which in turn also has a benign impact on measured productivity. Using …&D investment play a key role in explaining firm-level productivity growth. Moreover, the estimated returns to R&D are significantly …

we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … civil or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government …

country can raise its total factor productivity by investing in R&D. Countries can also boost their productivity by trading …

characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …

with career-concerns, where institutional owners increase managerial incentives to innovate by reducing the career risk of …

We develop a simple estimator for production functions in the presence of endogenous productivity change that allows us … to retrieve productivity and its relationship with R\&D at the firm level. By endogenizing the productivity process we … as a generalization of the knowledge capital model (Griliches 1979) that has remained a cornerstone of the productivity …

’ hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of …

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 …