Are International R&D Spillovers Trade-related? Analyzing Spillovers among Randomly Matched Trade Partners

R&D Spillovers, Trade Integration And Expansion Of Trade Flows In East- West Asia And Pacific

Foreign Trade and International Financial Flows: Implications for Economic Stability in the Selected ECOWAS Countries

T his study investigates the effects of extra-ECOWAS merchandise trade and investment flows on the transmission of business cycles in the selected ECOWAS between 1985 and 2014.  The study finds that total trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) significantly influence the transmission of business cycles with elasticities of 1.1 and 0.7, respectively in the long run. There are little vari...

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER SERIES R&D Spillovers Through Trade in a Panel of OECD Industries

This paper investigates the significance of Research and Development (R&D) spillovers through intraand international trade in intermediate goods for productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries during 1973-1994. In the model, four different sources of R&D are identified: R&D conducted in the particular industry itself, R&D conducted in the same industries in other countries, R&D conducted ...

R&D Spillovers in Agriculture: Results from a Trade Model

The objective of this study is to analyze technical change and the role of research and development (R&D) spillovers in this process for the U.S. agricultural sector. This study is composed of both a theoretical and an empirical analysis. In the theoretical analysis, a quality innovation model is used in which the R&D sector is the source of technological progress and is composed of a public an...

International , intersectoral or both ? In search for the nature of R & D Spillovers ∗

The aim of this paper is to identify the nature of R&D spillovers from an intersectoral, international as well as combined international-intersectoral perspective. We use panel data for sub-sectors of the manufacturing industry among 13 OECD countries in the period 1988 to 2006. We estimate Griliches-type knowledge production functions at the aggregate level along with two-digit industry level,...