We investigate the impact of local and foreign forms of knowledge spillover on productivity growth inequalities in Spanish regions. In each sector and region such inequalities will depend on the innovative capacity of the region and on local spillovers emanating from proximity to innovation producers and from the composition of economic activity in the region. Foreign spillovers will be mainly from trade with other regions or countries. Panel estimation results indicate that local sector human capital and specialisation patterns, public-R&D effortsö both local and from other regionsö and international technological imports reduce these growth differentials. The regional level of development and sector technological characteristics will qualify these results.
Trade, foreign direct investment, and inter-regional R&D spillovers facilitate competition, the spread of knowledge, and the adoption of more advanced technologies, which in turn hastens total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The spread of these efficiency gains from internationalization requires a sufficient local knowledge to enable them to be adapted to the domestic productive environment. Thus, higher local knowledge and internationalization will lead to TFP growth, and the greater the complementarity between variables the higher the TFP growth. We test the complementarity hypothesis using Spanish regional data over the period 1980-1995 in which both regional local knowledge and internationalization experienced a notable increase. Copyright Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2006
We investigate the impact of imports of intermediate inputs on export value and portfolio among Spanish regular two‐way trade of manufacturing firms over the period 1997–2018. After controlling for firm characteristics and addressing endogeneity, we find that firms that import intermediate inputs from non‐EUEFTA countries enhance the volume and scope of their EU15 exports. The magnitude of the impact is similar for high‐income countries and low‐income countries and there are no changes in sourcing patterns before or after the financial crisis.
El objetivo de esta aportación es analizar la bondad de las estimaciones elaboradas en el marco Contabilidad Nacional Trimestral (CNTR) de España sobre la evolución del PIB, con detalle a tres ramas productivas, medida a través de sus tasas interanuales e intertrimestrales. En concreto, se evaluará la calidad y precisión de las estimaciones mediante el análisis de la posible existencia de discrepancias sistemáticas entre los avances (primera estimación) de las tasas de variación de un determinado trimestre y las sucesivas estimaciones de ese mismo trimestre de referencia.
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