The global welfare impact of China: Trade integration and technological change

J Di Giovanni, AA Levchenko, J Zhang - American Economic Journal …, 2014 - aeaweb.org
This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and
technological change in a multi-country quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model. We …

Does foreign direct investment transfer technology across borders? New evidence

J Bitzer, M Kerekes - Economics letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Based on industry-level data of seventeen OECD countries we examine FDI as a potential
channel for knowledge diffusion. We find that FDI-receiving countries benefit strongly from …

The modern drivers of productivity

F Venturini - Research Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper studies the role of technology spillovers in productivity growth of OECD countries
looking at investments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Research & …

Under what conditions do firms benefit from the research efforts of other organizations?

MI Kafouros, PJ Buckley - Research policy, 2008 - Elsevier
Although R&D spillovers play a key role in the battle for technological leadership, it is
unclear under what conditions firms build on and benefit from the discoveries of others. The …

Does property rights protection affect export quality? Evidence from a property law enactment

G Li, J Li, Y Zheng, PH Egger - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Property-rights protection is important for a host of aspects. This paper explicitly examines its
effect on export quality, using the 2007 property law enactment in China as a natural …

Outsourcing, productivity, and input composition at the plant level

CJM Paul, M Yasar - Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate the productivity and input composition effects of outsourcing (or subcontracting)
for Turkish textile and apparel manufacturing plants. We analyze differences in performance …

On indirect trade-related R&D spillovers: the “Average Propagation Length” of foreign R&D

C Franco, S Montresor, GV Marzetti - Structural Change and Economic …, 2011 - Elsevier
The paper estimates the impact on Total Factor Productivity of trade-related R&D spillovers
by accounting for the economic distance between countries. The Average Propagation …

Innovation spillovers and firm performance: Micro evidence from Spain (2004–2009)

E Goya, E Vayá, J Suriñach - Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016 - Springer
This article analyses the impact that R&D expenditures and intra-and inter-industry
externalities have on the performance of Spanish firms. Despite the extensive literature …

Knowledge spillovers, absorptive capacity and total factor productivity in China's manufacturing firms

H Liao, X Liu, C Wang - International Review of Applied Economics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Applying the stochastic frontier framework, this study explores the diffusion and absorption of
technological knowledge in China's manufacturing firms, based on a panel of more than …

Medical innovation, life expectancy, and economic growth

M Kuhn, A Minniti, K Prettner, F Venturini - SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of health for economic growth, the role
of medical innovation in this process remains largely unexplored. Specifically, what are the …