R and D and productivity: Estimating endogenous productivity

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1338-1383

  Doraszelski, Ulrich ^a   Jaumandreu, Jordi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge capital model; Production function estimation; Productivity; RandD

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; ECONOMETRICS; INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; MODELING; PANEL DATA; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84886237820     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdt011     Document Type: Article

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