We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any research and development themselves benefit … knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of … total factor productivity of its trade partners. Following these theoretical developments we estimate the effects of a … country's R&D capital stock and the R&D capital stocks of its trade partners on the country's total factor productivity. We …

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

We provide sufficient statistics for nominal and real wage exposure to productivity shocks in a constant elasticity … wages in each location with respect to productivity shocks in all locations. They are readily computed using commonly … provide theory-consistent measures of locations' exposure to productivity shocks for use in further economic and statistical …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning … expenditures and internal research expenditures. The findings are consistent with the view that learning expenditures transmit the …

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 R&D capital are significant and plausible, both …

characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …

in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …