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Innovation, investment and productivity: evidence from Spanish firms

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Omar LICANDRO
Reyes MAROTO
Luis A. PUCH

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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.

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Paper provided by European University Institute in its series Economics Working Papers with number ECO2004/07.

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Keywords: investment spikes; machine replacement; technological innovation; labor productivity; learning effects;

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E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Capital; Investment; Capacity
C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General

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  1. Omar Licandro & Reyes Maroto & Luis A. Puch, . "Patterns of Investment in Spanish Manufacturing Firms," Studies on the Spanish Economy 185, FEDEA. [Downloadable!]
  2. Laia Castany, 2008. "The Role of Firm Size in Training Provision Decisions: evidence from Spain," IREA Working Papers 200808, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Jun 2008. [Downloadable!]
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  6. José A. Herce, . "Could this ever happen in Spain? Economic and policy aspects of a SARS-like episode," Working Papers 2004-09, FEDEA. [Downloadable!]
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