This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

This paper analyzes the contribution of network externalities to the pickup in U.S. productivity in the early 2000s …. The Internet and wireless communication are treated as the central mechanisms of ICT-driven productivity growth. The … approach contrasts with the dominant view in the macro-productivity literature, which places microprocessor speed and …

accumulation, a surge in hours worked, and faster growth of total factor productivity. The acceleration of productivity growth …

This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s …. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT …-intensive industries experienced significantly larger productivity gains than other industries and a wide variety of econometric tests show …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

value is not reflected in measured growth and productivity. To capture the contribution of the "free" Internet, we model the … transaction at production cost. When we incorporate this implicit transaction into U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), productivity …

Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread …

the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … productivity growth remained sluggish, with traditional sectors both in manufacturing and services seemingly unable to benefit from …

We examine the dynamics of ideas production and knowledge-productivity relationship in a panel of 19 OECD countries. A …&D but little support for endogenous growth. Countries with low domestic ideas bases could considerably improve productivity …