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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007

at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …

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Intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in OECD manufacturing: a spatial econometric perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...

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Innovation, trade, and finance

Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2011

This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...

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