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EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 143-166Publisher
PHYSICA-VERLAG GMBH & CO
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0174-x
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R&D spillovers; translog production function; Italian manufacturing firms
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Using a translog production function we estimate the impact of R&D spillovers on the output performance of Italian manufacturing firms over the period 1998-2003. Technological flows are measured through an asymmetric similarity index that takes also into account the geographical proximity of firms. Results show that R&D spillovers positively affect firms production and that geography matters in determining the role of the external technology. Moreover, we find that the effect of R&D spillovers is high in the Centre-South of Italy and that the stock of R&D spillovers is Morishima complement to the stock of R&D own-capital.
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