hiring a star in terms of the productivity impact on: 1) co-located incumbents and 2) new recruits. Using longitudinal … university department-level data we report that hiring a star does not increase overall incumbent productivity, although this …

research productivity implies a substantial return to public investments in basic research …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of … total factor productivity of its trade partners. Following these theoretical developments we estimate the effects of a … country's R&D capital stock and the R&D capital stocks of its trade partners on the country's total factor productivity. We …

manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to Ramp;D capital are significant and plausible …

total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

impact of this phenomenon on rich countries have stressed either a (positive) productivity effect associated with increased …

and productivity, and argue for more systematic collection of the use of these technologies at the firm level. Existing …

In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the … externalities. The resulting contribution of R&D to productivity growth in the US is smaller than three to five tenths of one …