What drives trade-related R&D spillovers? Decomposing knowledge-diffusing trade flows

Economics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-57

  Bitzer, Jürgen ^a   Geishecker, Ingo ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Productivity; R D; Spillovers; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748884922     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.03.051     Document Type: Article

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