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Financial frictions and foreign direct investment : theory and evidence from Japanese microdata

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Combining technology and work organization : an analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

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Productivity convergence and foreign ownership at the establishment level

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This paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at … the establishment level. We find convergence to the frontier is statistically and quatatively important, suggesting the … technological frontier, and therefore make a contribution to productivity growth through technology transfer. We also find evidence …

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Regional FDI, technological knowledge and Export-Oriented Entrepreneurs in Spain

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Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations

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We examine the home bias of knowledge spillovers (the idea that knowledge spreads more slowly over international boundaries than within them) as measured by the speed of patent citations. We present econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has fallen over...

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Is distance dying at last? : falling home bias in fixed-effects models of patent citations

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Productivity Convergence and Foreign Ownership at the Establishment Level

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

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Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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Productivity convergence and foreign ownership at the establishment level

Griffith, Rachel; Simpson, Helen; Redding, Stephen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2002

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