total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. Articles in the corporate real estate journal Site … is smaller than the direct increase in productivity …

Productivity spillovers are often cited as a reason for geographic specialization in production. A large literature in … show that a simple Roy model of patient treatment choice with productivity spillovers can generate these facts. Our model …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

localized spillover effects of the new parks on local incumbent firm productivity, the growth of retail activity close to the …

-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

communication flows serve as important channels of diffusion. The analysis is based on examining the productivity effects of R …

productivity. We investigate these phenomena further by examining the relationship between plant-level productivity and firm …-level R&D. We find that (1) the productivity-enhancing effects of parent firm R&D are diminished by geographic distance from … the research lab and `technological' distance between the product-field focus of the R&D and the plants; (2) productivity …

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …