Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation …

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … estimate the impact of the innovation output conditional on the choice of appropriability mechanisms on firms' productivity. We … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending (rather than R …

This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … determinants of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the shape of the productivity … similar goods. The balance of adoption and innovation determines the shape of the distribution; innovation stretches the … of innovators. While innovation drives long-run growth, changes in the adoption environment can influence growth by …

The achievements in agricultural innovation over the past century have been impressive, supporting large increases in …