R&D spillovers and firms' performance in Italy

Empirical Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-166

  Aiello, Francesco ^a   Cardamone, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italian manufacturing firms; R D spillovers; Translog production function

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38949115934     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0174-x     Document Type: Article

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