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exporters, either through learning by doing or through establishing buyer- supplier linkages. We pursue the idea that spillovers … sources of spillovers: export activity in general and the specific activities of multinational enterprises. We use a simple … manufacturing plants, we find evidence consistent with spillovers from the export activity of multinational enterprises but not with …
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enterprises also predicts geographically localized knowledge spillovers at least for products in development. However, when we …
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I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers in US cities by estimating plant-level production functions. I use a …, spillovers between plants that rarely interact are zero, while spillovers between plants that often interact are significant … equilibrium forces and spillovers, the productivity gains generated by human capital spillover are offset by increased labor costs …
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Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but standard models of intrahousehold allocation imply that reducing the opportunity cost of girls' schooling might also be effective. I test this prediction using quasi-experimental...
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harmonization in equalizing income levels of countries that start off from different initial income positions. Knowledge spillovers … for the internalization of knowledge spillovers may or may not be necessary. These considerations constitute the basis for …
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We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to...
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Employing a 'factor-content' model that relates sectoral growth to regional factor endowments, we find that 1) U.S. state factor endowments are reasonably strong correlates of cross-state sectoral growth in value-added, with patterns that accord well with intuition; 2) that inter-sectoral...
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Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to … rate or return from IT spillovers from the invention of the Internet, and to a large potential undercounting of "digital …
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In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the … seven largest industrialized countries (G-7); (2) analyze the effect of spillovers on the structure of production, i.e., the … R&D investment as well as the social rates of return of foreign R&D spillovers. To achieve the objectives of this study …
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In this paper, we examine one channel through which the trade regime might affect growth in the long run. We model endogenous technological progress that results from profit maximizing investments by far-sighted entrepreneurs. Productivity in the research lab depends upon the "stock of knowledge...
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