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Endogenous Innovations and Knowledge Spillovers
1 online resource (viii, 277 pages 29 illustrations)
This book contains a theoretical and empirical analysis of the sources of technological change and economic growth. The first part takes an aggregate view at the growth process. Scale economies and knowledge spillovers are analysed with a broad panel of sectoral data for Germany and the United States. The second part contains a micro analysis of endogenous innovations and knowledge spillovers. The determinants of innovations are analysed and the effects of innovations on productivity and market behaviour are discussed. The models are estimated with a broad panel of firm level data from the ifo firm panel.
Sources of productivity growth at the sectoral level -- International sectoral spillovers -- Innovations, prices and employment -- Endogenous innovation in a model of the firm -- Sources of productivity growth at the firm level -- Appendices.
Industrial organization (Economic theory)