We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any, research and development themselves benefit … knowledge” from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of …

pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that … productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral … productivity growth rates has a significant effect on the rate of aggregate productivity growth …

productivity and that they impact the degree of R&D spillovers …

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working …

(FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …