How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational … firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in … either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …

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 …

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 …

for retirement. Many respondents display limited knowledge and understanding of public and company-provided retirement … remainder of their lifetimes, many do not possess enough basic financial knowledge to confidently make optimal choices …

We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the …-like complaints visits the same physician. Simulated patient A is instructed to ask a question that showcases his/her knowledge of … patient's knowledge of appropriate antibiotics use reduces both antibiotic prescription rates and drug expenditures. Such …

suggest that causality is more likely to run from pension wealth to pension knowledge, rather than the other way around … Security knowledge. Third, standardizing for incomes and other factors, a pension of higher value does not substitute for other …, other things the same. Fourth, there is no evidence that wealth held outside of pensions is influenced by knowledge of …

produce health. This suggests that the more educated have more knowledge about the health production function and they have … more health knowledge. This paper uses data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the NLSY97 to conduct an investigation of the … allocative efficiency hypothesis by analyzing whether education improves health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe …