We study the effects of digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students’ financial knowledge in a … video treatment enhanced financial knowledge scores by more than 0.5 standard deviations. Conversely, the vouchers showed no …

This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology … sourcing FDI, acquisitions from non-leading countries increase internal R&D efforts. -- MNE ; knowledge production function …

This paper revisits the debate about the appropriate differential equation that governs the evolution of knowledge in … the evolution of knowledge is plausible if it satisfies two asymptotic conditions: Looking forwards, infinite knowledge in … finite time should be excluded, and looking backwards, knowledge should vanish towards the beginning of time (but not before …

We incorporate the now standard knowledge-capital model of multinational firms in a new economic geography setting. The …

endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …

' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge … knowledge diffusion subsequently leading to declining business dynamism. Our findings indicate that only when knowledge … markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …