This paper studies localization of academic and industrial knowledge spillovers. Using data on U.S. Research and …

We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary …

This paper examines the role of knowledge elites in modernization. At the eve of the French Revolution, in the spring … particularly high in regions that had a thick knowledge elite, measured by subscribers to the famous Encyclopédie in the 1770s …. Historical evidence suggests that this pattern is driven by the spirit of enlightenment of French knowledge elites. Pre …

Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …, and particle physics. We develop a combinatorial-based knowledge production function and embed it in the classic Jones …. This production function is a generalization (and reinterpretation) of the Romer/Jones knowledge production function …

knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational … negative implications for growth. I develop a formal model of this "knowledge burden mechanism" and derive six testable … sufficiently rapid increase in the burden of knowledge. In cross-section, the model predicts that specialization and teamwork will …

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, this paper creates variables measuring knowledge about future social … security earnings records and employer provided descriptions of pension plans. The knowledge measures suggest that … earnings record, the effects of planning activities on knowledge are modest. In descriptive and reduced form equations for …

technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers …. I introduce a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and I use this framework to … directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct …