economies from 1980 to 1995. An empirical model is estimated which relates total factor productivity to domestic and foreign R …&D activity, trade, and information technology and telecommunications (ITT). Model estimates confirm a positive relationship … between national productivity and R&D activity exists in the long run. Further, the benefits of R&D can spillover countries …

With ever increasing global integration, productivity improvements depend not only on in-house innovative efforts, but … on those of international partners as well. This paper explores the impact of foreign R\&D on productivity and technical … efficiency of countries by considering three major channels of embodied and disembodied spillovers, namely trade, foreign direct …

computations of the sector elasticity of labor demand, and by evaluating the employment effects of trade in manufactures, services … the aggregate estimate in all three countries. The employment effect of openness to trade is generally positive, although …

Exogenous technical progress can have uneven impacts on productivity contingent on absorptive capacity, structural … congruence and trade intensity. The paper illustrates the role of enabling behind-the-border factors for effective absorption and …. The capture parameter is the outcome of endogenous decision-making process. The ‘productivity bonus’ mechanism leaves room …

when compared to global peers on pharmaceutical value-added, productivity, research and development and trade performance …-effective producer of quality drugs. India emerged as one of the fast growing pharmaceutical industry in the world with growing trade … productivity and R&D intensity. A host of competitive strategies, like greenfield direct investment, overseas acquisitions …

This paper argues that institutional quality has both direct and indirect (moderating) effects on productivity of … property rights and ease of doing business) and two channels for technological spillovers (trade and FDI) in a panel of … developed and transition economies. The results confirm that good institutions have positive and similar effects on productivity …

between trade and productivity. We illustrate that both the scale effect and the flourish of entrepreneurial talent due to …This paper establishes a crucial link between international trade and local organization of production. By using the … standard Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model we show that international trade promotes fragmentation, entrepreneurship and …

international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that … most of the growth-imports correlation is explained by these two mechanisms. I also find that the trade channel has been …