The paper focuses on the impact of business related R&D spending on input factor productivity (IFP) using international … patent applications as a technology diffusion channel. Considering the relationship between research and productivity … effects, I use the estimation techniques developed and proposed by Kao and Chiang (1998) in order to deal with nonstationary …

for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …

the productivity effect of: (a) foreign ownership in firms, and (b) foreign presence in industries and regions. In the … productivity. In the second case, the impact of foreign investment on productivity of domestically owned firms turns out to be …

In this paper we aim to analyze the productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated and domestic firms in Turkish … the existence of positive and significant productivity spillovers among the neighborhood firms. We also find that an … increase in the share of foreign affiliated firms in a given industry has positive impact on the productivity level of …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …

or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …

: their productivity level and its export status. In line with theories and empirical evidence on the absorptive capacity of …

FDI is an important channel for productivity spillovers across economies. But productivity and employment effects of … difference of total factor productivity amounts to 6 %. Second, multinationals show quite heterogeneous performances after cross … firm. But most importantly, the causal effect of cross-border M&A on the multinationals' productivity is positive and …