Innovation, investment and productivity: evidence from Spanish firms

Omar Licandro (), Reyes Maroto and Luis Puch

No ECO2004/07, Economics Working Papers from European University Institute

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the role of replacement and innovation activity in shaping investment behavior and labor productivity in a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms from 1990 to 2001. Investment is concentrated about large investment episodes, or investment spikes, whose nature varies by observable firm characteristics. We find evidence of replacement activity as a determinant of investment spikes for those firms that are not involved in process innovation nor plant expansion. Then we explore how large investment episodes transmit into the evolution of labor productivity under different innovative strategies. We find that expansionary and innovative firms increase their productivity after an investment spike. However, long learning curves seems to be associated with innovative investments.

Keywords: investment spikes; machine replacement; technological innovation; labor productivity; learning effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 E22 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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