This paper empirically investigates how the inter-sectoral knowledge flows affect the international competitiveness of industries, once controlling for both cost and other technological factors. Using patent data on 14 manufacturing industries in 16 OECD countries over the period 1995-2009, we...

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons have been identified for this slowdown, including lack of policy focus, unsupportive external environment, etc. Given the importance of the manufacturing sector and its...

Die Globalisierung ist eine zentrale Herausforderung für Industrieländer wie Deutschland, und multinationale Unternehmen sind ihre wichtigsten Treiber. In diesem Beitrag wird die Internationalisierung der deutschen Industrieunternehmen ab 1995 untersucht und mit der in Unternehmen aus den USA,...

Die Globalisierung ist eine zentrale Herausforderung für Industrieländer wie Deutschland, und multinationale Unternehmen sind ihre wichtigsten Treiber. In diesem Beitrag wird die Internationalisierung der deutschen Industrieunternehmen ab 1995 untersucht und mit der in Unternehmen aus den USA,...

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons have been identified for this slowdown, including lack of policy focus, unsupportive external environment, etc. Given the importance of the manufacturing sector and its...

The effect of technology spillovers is widely considered as one of the main channels through which domestic firms benefit from FDI (Foreign Direct Investments), and plays an important role in economic development of host countries. FDI is expected to generate technology spillovers to indigenous...

We estimate the rate of embodied technological change directly from plant-level manufacturing data on current output and input choices along with histories on their vintages of equipment investment. Our estimates range between 8 and 17 percent for the typical U.S. manufacturing plant during the...

In this paper we provide fresh evidence on TFP performance in the Italian economy since 1995, taking into account the changing composition of primary inputs across different capital goods and employment skills, as well as technical progress embodied in different vintages of the productive...