effects of international co-operative R&D on short term productivity gains among European manufacturing firms and to clarify … symmetric Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) increase productivity to a greater extent than RJVs between asymmetric firms. The …

This paper employs a nonparametric approach to investigate the sources of growth in labor productivity for 77 countries … and to decompose it in the following three components: (1) total factor productivity; (2) capital deepening; and (3 …

world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely … to generate innovations which are diffused widely and are more likely to benefit from innovations generated elsewhere …

The U.S. economy has experienced a rapid expansion in industries with low productivity growth. In this paper, we … investigate whether financial development improves productivity growth in these industries. Testing reveals that stagnant … industries experience remarkable post-deregulation productivity growth improvement. This result is not an artefact of growing …