In this article, we briefly review our own work, and related studies, on the impact of FDI in African countries using firm level data....

This report examines key aspects of the European Union-China economic relationship, including trade, investment and China’s key...

Recent studies have identified that employees can be lead users of their employing firm's products, and valuable sources of product...

Absorbing external knowledge is crucial for innovation within the organization. One way of tapping external knowledge sources is to...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 142: Taiwan and South Korea are generally considered to be more successful than many others in containing the...

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and mass...

Adding specific firm-level insights into the factors driving firms to subcontract operations to the informal sector, this article uses...

This paper studies the innovation productivity of academic researchers across their career advancement. Taking patents and invention...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

This paper studies whether corruption has a greasing or a sanding effect on the production of innovation. The main novelty lies in...

Using panel data for a large cross-country sample, we consider the influences of FDI inflows, inward development aid, and immigration...

This paper investigates the impact of new digital technologies, including advances in artificial intelligence, on men’s and women’s...

We investigate the impact of new digital technologies upon occupations. We argue that these impacts may be both destructive and...

The present analysis addresses the problems associated with technology transfer from the defense and space sectors. On this basis, the...

This paper summarizes the effects of defense and aerospace spending on capital formation, technical progress, employment, inflation...

This paper examines how military spending and spending on military research and development has affected macroeconomic productivity...