International R&D Spillovers

David Theodore Coe () and Elhanan Helpman

No 840, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized this link and have also identified a number of channels through which a country's R&D affects total factor productivity of its trade partners. Following these theoretical developments we estimate the effects of a country's R&D capital stock and the R&D capital stocks of its trade partners on the country's total factor productivity. We find large effects of both domestic and foreign R&D capital stocks on total factor productivity. The foreign R&D capital stocks have particularly large effects on the smaller countries in our sample (that consists of 22 countries). Moreover, we find that about one-quarter of the worldwide benefits of investment in R&D in the seven largest economies are appropriated by their trade partners.

Keywords: Economic Growth; International Trade; R&D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993-10
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Working Paper: International R&D Spillovers (1995)
Working Paper: International R&D Spillovers (1993)
Working Paper: International R&D Spillovers (1993)
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