Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …

world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely … to generate innovations which are diffused widely and are more likely to benefit from innovations generated elsewhere …

industrialized world, (ii) the emerging world, (iii) different country and regional groups, (iv) selected bilateral cases, and (v …) those within the regional clusters of EMEs, are modeled. Spillovers from the industrialized world appear robust via …. Spillovers from the emerging world are virtually non-existent. Analyses of regional clusters of EMEs do not support any role of …

innovate, harmonization toward narrower patent breadth may raise world welfare …

activities, which are based on green technological innovations carried out by a coalition of countries, may be a better approach …

-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the … policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …