We study the impact of information and communication technology on growth through its impact on organization and … innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge through two activities: innovation (discovering new technologies) and exploitation …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …

employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the … UK. Results show that displacement effects induced by productivity growth in the production of old products are large …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …

This paper compares the contribution of R&D to innovation in terms of the various innovation output measures provided … by the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3) for French manufacturing firms and in terms of accounting for inter …-industry innovation differences …

knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of … the magnitude of the slowdown in German, French, and Japanese productivity growth and the relative constancy of U.K. and U …

This paper investigates the effect of export shocks on innovation. On the one hand a positive shock increases market … size and therefore innovation incentives for all firms. On the other hand it increases competition as more firms enter the … export market. This in turn reduces profits and therefore innovation incentives particularly for firms with low productivity …