What has been the quantitative effect on productivity growth of information and communication technology (ICT) in Europe after 1995? Based on a multi-country sectoral panel data set, we provide econometric evidence of positive and signi?cant productivity effects of ICT in Europe, mainly due to...

This study explores how sector specific shocks in productivity and demand originating in the German motor vehicles industry impact on four other German manufacturing industries. Based on a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model with long run restrictions, technology and non-technology...

We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the privatesector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on thepopulation of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measureinnovation performance by...

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for thepopulation of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our studydocuments a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and thefirm’s innovative activity. This...

Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and the literature on the relationship between science and technology, this paper scrutinizes the importance of university scientists' mobility for firms' innovative...

This paper analyzes the persistence of firms' exporting behavior in a panel of West German manufacturing firms. Dynamic binary choice models allow us to distinguish between true and spurious state dependence in firm performance. Using random effects models as well as a recent fixed effect...