This paper simultaneously explores the determinants of the developing countries' production frontier and these countries' 'efficiency' in using the available resources and technology. In doing so it allows for the transfer of (industrial country) technology in determining the frontier and for...

We examine the importance of a firm's own R&D activity and intra-sectoral spillovers on the decision to export and the export intensity using firm level panel data for Spain for the period 1990-98. Own R&D activity is found to be an important determinant of export activity. There is little...