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Recombinant innovation and the boundaries of the firm

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Straathof, Bas - 2014

There is considerable interest in understanding how important market frictions are in stifling the transmission of ideas from one firm to another. Although the theoretical literature emphasizes the importance of these frictions, direct empirical evidence on them is limited. We use comprehensive...

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The Innovation Premium to Soft Skills in Low-Skilled Occupations

Aghion, Philippe - 2019

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to analyze the wage premium to working in an innovative firm. We find that firms that are more R&D intensive pay higher wages on average, and this is particularly true for workers in some low-skilled occupations. We propose a model in which a...

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Firm Location Decisions, Regional Grants and Agglomeration Externalities

Griffith, Rachel - 2008

We examine whether discretionary government grants influence the location of new plants. Grants have a small effect in attracting plants to specific geographic areas, but their effectiveness increases with agglomeration externalities, measured by the number of other plants in that location in...

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Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries

Griffith, Rachel; Huergo, Elena; MAIRESSE, Jacques; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

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 …

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