technical change. We use the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard and perform a quantile estimation of an augmented Cobb …

measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …

The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting … for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these … issues, we employ a two step estimation approach, and match two firm-level panel data sets for the OECD countries, which …

This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … a robust determinant of productivity in the long term. Control variables such as spending on R&D and human capital also … range of productivity measures as well as to changes in the sectoral coverage and the set of controls. …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a … can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm's productivity … target of R&D investment, suggests that firms in hightech sectors are still far ahead in terms of the impact on productivity …