between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … estimate the impact of the innovation output conditional on the choice of appropriability mechanisms on firms' productivity. We … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending (rather than R …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a …

Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and …

This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … determinants of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …

providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better … differences in the propensity to adopt technology can lead to wide and persistent productivity differences across countries -- or … productivity, and swamp the impact of traditional factor inputs. Holding technology constant, the marginal gains from spending on …

technological innovation …

both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …