descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement … issues in standard productivity analysis, specifically, omission and attribution issues, and, if so, whether the magnitude is …

interindustry transaction. Decomposition of total factor productivity (TFP) suggests that IT externalities can explain considerable …

We study the impact of FDI on the productivity of host-country firms. FDI has positive spillovers only when foreign and … increase productivity spillovers from FDI. We show that inventor mobility across sectors is a key channel of technology … transfer. To deal with endogeneity concerns we control for sectoral productivity growth, construct a Bartik-style instrument …

Productivity spillovers are often cited as a reason for geographic specialization in production. A large literature in … show that a simple Roy model of patient treatment choice with productivity spillovers can generate these facts. Our model …

-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …