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Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers
Crespi, Gustavo - 2008
This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge flows to firm-level data on TFP growth. Our data measure the information flows often considered important, especially by policy-makers, such as from within the firm and from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464694
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Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States
Branstetter, Lee - 2000
Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international spillovers' of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers. I introduce a framework for measuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470716
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International Knowledge Flows : Evidence from Patent Citations
Jaffe, Adam B. - 1998
This paper explores the patterns of citations among patents taken out by inventors in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and Japan. We find (1) patents assigned to the same firm are more likely to cite each other, and come sooner than other citations; (2) patents in the same patent class are...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations : Evidence from Ethiopia
Abebe, Girum - 2018
We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts that attracted a large greenfield foreign plant and districts where greenfield FDI was licensed but not yet operational. Treated and untreated...
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Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers : Evidence from Million Dollar Plants
Greenstone, Michael - 2008
After the new plant opening, incumbent plants in winning counties experience a sharp relative increase in TFP. Five years after the opening, TFP of incumbent plants in winning counties is 12% higher than TFP of incumbent plants in losing counties. Consistent with some theories of agglomeration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464813
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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity
Aghion, Philippe - 2006
How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
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"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation
Gentry, William M. - 2004
entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456579
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014
We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space : Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
Azoulay, Pierre - 2011
Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...
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