outcome and productivity, and also innovation accounting and propensity score matching approaches. Our results show that the …A growing literature is trying to analyse the productivity gap between domestic and foreign firms with differences in … innovation indicators. In our paper we analyse the relationship between inward and outward FDI at either company or industry …

We study the global innovation and diffusion of ideas by introducing trade into the model in Eaton and Kortum (1999 … intensity of innovation within countries over time and diffusion rates across countries. We find significant specialization … across the globe: some countries have high innovation rates, while other countries rely on diffusion. Although innovation is …

Recent evidence suggests that despite opening up a country for trade, the productivity gap between developed and … liberalization increases economic performance, that is average productivity and technology adoption, in both countries but that the … productivity gap widens. Simulations show that the welfare gap widens too. Opening up without sufficient access to external funding …

We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …

potential determinants of innovation; and (ii) analysing the effects of governance and regulation on innovation in conjunction … Greenwich in September 2011 and will be published as an edited book titled Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Theory and … widely defined and innovation, taking into account the interactions between governance and market structure as well as …