-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for … industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …

Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the … sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an … genuine savings and the sustainability prospects of future generations. …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and … of stronger persistence in productivity than in innovation. …

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot … and growth carries over to the Cournot set-up. -- competition ; imitation ; innovation ; Schumpeterian growth ; sector …