The objective of this study is to compare the effect of different types of public support for R&D projects on firms’ technological capabilities. We distinguish be-tween low-interest loans and subsidies and between national and European sup-port. Using data on 2,319 Spanish firms during the...

This article analyzes the relationship between R&D expenditures, innovation, and productivity growth, taking into account the possibility of persistence in firms' behavior. We study this relationship for a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms between 1990 and 2005, estimating a model with four...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the effects of international R&D cooperation on firms’ economic performance. Our approach, based on a complete data set with information about Spanish participants in research joint ventures supported by the EU Framework Programme during the period...

El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una revisión de las principales regularidades que, desde una óptica microeconómica, se han observado en los trabajos que analizan la evolución de la productividad y los determinantes de su crecimiento en la economía española durante las últimas...

<em>This working paper is co-authored by Lourdes Moreno.</em> The objective of this study is to compare the effect of different types of public support for R&D projects on firms’ technological capabilities. We distinguish between low-interest loans and subsidies and between national and...