R&D and productivity: Testing sectoral peculiarities using micro data

Empirical Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 817-839

  Ortega Argilés, Raquel ^a   Potters, Lesley ^b   Vivarelli, Marco ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Knowledge stock; Panel data; Perpetual inventory method; Productivity; R D

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; INVESTMENT; PANEL DATA; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 80955157915     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-010-0406-3     Document Type: Article

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