Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills: Looking for Correlations on French Firm-Level Data

To account for the uneven distribution of economic activity in space, I propose a theory of the location choices of heterogeneous firms in a variety of sectors across cities. In equilibrium, the distribution of city sizes and the sorting patterns of firms are uniquely determined and affect aggregate TFP and welfare. I estimate the model using French firm-level data and find that nearly half of the productivity advantage of large cities is due to firm sorting, the rest coming from agglomeration economies. I quantify the general equilibrium effects of place-based policies: policies that subsidize smaller cities have negative aggregate effects. (JEL D22, D24, R11, R32)

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Semiparametric Estimation of Information Technology Diffusion Models: A Study Based on Portuguese Firm-Level Data

American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences ◽

10.1080/01966324.2010.10737788 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 30 (3-4) ◽

pp. 257-283

Author(s):

Maria F.O. Martins ◽

Tiago Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Technology Diffusion ◽

Semiparametric Estimation ◽

Diffusion Models ◽

Firm Level ◽

Level Data ◽

Firm Level Data

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Competition and Product Innovation by Turkish Firms

Handbook of Research on Comparative Economic Development Perspectives on Europe and the MENA Region - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-9548-1.ch019 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 469-491

Author(s):

Fatma Nur Karaman Kabadurmus ◽

Sajal Lahiri

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Linear Relationship ◽

Product Innovation ◽

Strong Support ◽

Business Environment ◽

Process Innovation ◽

Enterprise Performance ◽

Firm Level ◽

Level Data ◽

Firm Level Data

This chapter examines empirically the determinants of research and development (R&D) activities by Turkish firms. It focuses on the question of how competition affects product innovation, and not process innovation, in Turkey. In particular, we test if there is a non-linear relationship between R&D activities of a firm and the degree of competition in that industry. We use Turkish firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) and find strong support for an inverted-U relationship between the two variables.

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The Euro and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade: Evidence from French Firm Level Data

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1194963 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Antoine Berthou ◽

Lionel Fontagne

Keyword(s):

Firm Level ◽

French Firm ◽

Level Data ◽

Firm Level Data

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R&D Performance in High-Tech Firms in China

Asian Economic Papers ◽

10.1162/asep_a_00565 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 193-208 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Zhao Chen ◽

Sang-Ho Lee ◽

Wei Xu

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Foreign Firms ◽

High Tech ◽

Firm Level ◽

Industrial Upgrading ◽

Level Data ◽

Firm Level Data ◽

The Government ◽

Made In China ◽

Made In

Using firm-level data from Changzhou, a prefectural city in China's Yangzi River Delta, we investigate the performance of both internal and external research and development (R&D) in high-tech firms. We find that, on average, high-tech firms with more internal R&D expenditure apply for more patents in terms of both the total number of patents and the number of invention patents. Internal R&D is most efficient in foreign firms, followed by private firms and then state-owned enterprises. These findings highlight the importance of privatizing high-tech firms in China if the government intends to accelerate industrial upgrading and convert the pattern of “Made in China” into “Created in China.”

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