We use a new data set for European manufacturing firms to assess whether a short term technological convergence process … effects of international co-operative R&D on short term productivity gains among European manufacturing firms and to clarify … the role of spillovers in the process of technological diffusion. We find substantial evidence of convergence across firms …

labor productivity convergence driving forces (i.e.capital accumulation and technological catch-up) in different … cross-country heterogeneity of labor productivity convergence tendencies. My results show that technology growth rate is … and the Generalized Method of Moments estimators to test, respectively, for Total Factor Productivity determinants and …