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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector

Haskel, Jonathan - 2013

of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …

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Too Much of a Good Thing? the Economics of Investment in R&D

Jones, Charles I. - 2013

Research and development (Ramp;D) is a key determinant of long run productivity and welfare. A central issue is whether a decentralized economy undertakes too little or too much Ramp;D. We develop an endogenous growth model that incorporates parametrically four important distortions to Ramp;D:...

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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions

Coe, David T. - 2010

The empirical analysis in quot;International Ramp;D Spilloversquot; (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results...

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Private Equity and Long-Run Investment : The Case of Innovation

Lerner, Josh - 2015

A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term profit motives and sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on...

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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production

Mohnen, Pierre - 2018

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …

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How Do Patents Affect Research Investments?

Williams, Heidi L. - 2017

While patent systems have been widely used both historically and internationally, there is nonetheless a tremendous amount of controversy over whether patent systems – in practice – improve the alignment between private returns and social contributions. In this paper, I describe three...

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Upstream Product Market Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert - 2015

Our study aims at assessing the actual importance of the two main channels usually contemplated in the literature through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in ICT. We thus estimate what are the specific impacts of...

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The Myth of the Patient Japanese : Corporate Myopia and Financial Distress in Japan and the Us

Hall, Brian J. - 2006

decrease their Ramp;D spending (our main proxy for long-term investment) more than Japanese firms. We find no evidence that …

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Productivity Gains from R&D Investment : Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2011

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large …

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Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment : a Quuality Laddermodel Interpretation

Klette, Tor Jakob - 2011

We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …

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