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

This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge …

and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors' productivity over the life cycle, inventors' research teams … better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients …

other citations; (2) patents in the same patent class are approximately 100 times as likely to cite each other as patents … from different patent classes there is not a strong time pattern to this effect; (3) patents whose inventors reside in the …

smaller cities. We analyze the idea inputs of nearly every US patent granted during 1836–2010. We find that a larger city size …

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 …

prices and total factor productivity (TFP) with the aim of highlighting data patterns that are useful for evaluating business … run movements in total factor productivity and (ii) such stock prices innovations do not affect U.S. sectoral TFPs …

model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …