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This study examines the different sources of international technology transfer to 205 UK industries in a panel running from 1979-1991. FDI is found to be more important than trade in the transfer of knowledge to UK industries. The estimated elasticities have a range; in the static model that...
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-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry … spillovers exist, are positive, and account for 70% of the increase in productivity that results from a reduction in import …
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Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method to measure the impact of an intervention in health as well as social sciences. This method requires baseline data, i.e., data before interventions, which are not always available in reality. Instead, panel data with two time periods are...
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The main objective of this study is to develop an economic analysis estimating the solid waste quantities and optimal hauling distance to install transfer stations in Colombia, according to landfill location. This goal is met by using a difference in differences approach (impact evaluation...
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This study measures the effect of minimum wage increases on firm outcomes using fixed-effects regression and panel data from Vietnam Enterprise Censuses during 2008-2010. It is found that minimum wages reduce firms’ labor size, albeit at a small magnitude. A one percent increase in real...
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Using a Monte Carlo experiment, this paper explores the impact of data aggregation on measuring the FDI spillovers. We … find the aggregation significantly covers up the spillovers, which is further exacerbated by the correlation between the … proportional to its domestic counterparts, then the aggregation does not affect the measurement of spillovers. …
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This paper analyses the importance of different technological inputs (R&D and human capital) and different spillovers … significant effect on innovation output, measured by the number of patents. R&D spillovers weighted by the distance and the volume … intensity of trade flows and the R&D spillover effects between regions are bounded: spillovers from closer regions perform …
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-owned British retailers. In specific, we investigate the existence of productivity spillovers in the form of knowledge transfer. To … spillovers on the productivity performance of domestic firms. More specifically, using data from the Annual Respondent Dataset … (ARD), we find that positive spillovers exist but are mostly confined to the region in which foreign subsidiaries locate …
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This paper investigates the effect of foreign presence on the productivity of manufacturing industries in Ghana, using firm level panel data. We examine both labor and total factor productivity (TFP), which we compute using the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) methodology. We control for a number of...
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SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of … using a standard probit where the probability that SMEs will innovate depends upon intramural R&D effort, regional and … industrial spillovers and a vector of interaction and control variables. The main results obtained from this second set of …
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