We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

This paper studies the persistence of innovation and the dynamics of innovation output in Dutch manufacturing using … firm data from three waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS), pertaining to the periods 1994-1996, 1996-1998, and …

industries. The same pattern shows up in the three Dutch Community Innovation Surveys. …