Regionalism, Productivity, and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation

Massimiliano Tani (), Rolando Avendano and Lovely Tolin ()
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Massimiliano Tani: University of New South Wales
Lovely Tolin: Asian Development Bank

No 760, ADB Economics Working Paper Series from Asian Development Bank

Abstract: In this paper, we examine whether, and if so how, an economy’s deliberate policy choices of regional cooperation and integration influence underlying determinants of economic growth. Building on models of growth and innovation, we analyze the role of regional integration on labor productivity and firms’ probability to innovate using data from a panel of 170 economies and 60,000 firms over a period of two decades. Our results suggest that regionalism, as captured by metrics of regional cooperation and integration, can positively contribute to labor productivity and innovation, in addition to known factors of production.

Keywords: regional integration; productivity; innovation; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 F15 O30 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2024-12-13
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