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 private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...