Gasto en investigación y desarrollo y productividad en la industria manufacturera mexicana

Rene Cabral () and Franco Jair González
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Franco Jair González: ITESM

Estudios Económicos, 2014, vol. 29, issue 1, 27-55

Abstract: We study the effects of R&D on productivity across a sample of 17 Mexican manufacturing sectors from 1994 to 2007. Employing panel data methods we find some interesting results. First, ordinary least squares estimates suggest a strong link between R\&D expenditure and productivity. Second, after controlling for heterogeneity and endogeneity problems such evidence disappears. Third, partitioning our sample according to R&D intensity criteria, we even observe negative effects on productivity from those industries that employ that resource more intensively.

Keywords: R&D expenditure; manufacturing industry; Mexico; panel data. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 L60 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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