countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …

This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the … manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to Ramp;D capital are significant and plausible …

equilibrium forces and spillovers, the productivity gains generated by human capital spillover are offset by increased labor costs …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 …

Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to …'s TFP and the foreign-affiliate share of activity in that plant's industry. This is consistent with positive FDI spillovers … these spillovers. These calculated values appear to be less than per-job incentives governments have granted in recent high …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this … output prices and plant size and between input prices and plant size -- and for how those correlations vary across sectors …) input prices are positively correlated with plant size within industries on average; and (3) both correlations are more …

of sources. Establishments are larger in manufacturing than in services, and in each sector they are larger in richer … endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …

The relative price of services rises with development. A standard interpretation of this fact is that productivity …-country income elasticity of sectoral productivity is large in non-traditional services (1.15), smaller in manufacturing (1.05) and … much smaller in traditional services (0.67). Eliminating cross-country productivity differences in non-traditional services …

have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This … paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of …