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This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP using...
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Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly …
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Only a few years ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalization would render the demise of the region as a … essential to innovative activity. Such knowledge spillovers tend to be spatially restricted. Thus, an irony of globalization is …
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Whether diversity or specialization of economic activity better promotes technological change and subsequent economic growth has been the subject of a heated debate in the economics literature. The purpose of this paper is to consider the effect of the composition of economic activity on...
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This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent career...
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In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) argue that evidence on the international disparity in levels of per-capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
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The purpose of this paper is to try to shed some new light on the current industrial policy crisis. This paper proposes that the industrial policy debate is shaped by knowledge about the functioning of the underlying industrial structure, which in turn is the Gegenstand of scholars in the field...
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sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …
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model of production. Globalization is interpreted as a level shock in the supply of unskilled labor to the world economy, a …This paper argues that globalization has led to a shift in developed countries from an industrial to an entrepreneurial … move varieties between life cycle stages, their importance increases due to globalization. The many new opportunities for …
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globalization and stronger protection of intellectual property are analysed. It is shown that globalization leads to more copying of … intellectual property protection has the opposite steady-state effects and thus serves to moderate the effects of globalization. …
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