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Imports, Productivity and the Origin Markets -the role of knowledge-intensive economies

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Lööf, Hans () (CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology)
Andersson, Martin () (CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology)

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This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most knowledge intensive economies in the world, i.e. the G7 countries. Using Swedish firm-level data, we confirm an instantaneous causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports. Our results highlight the importance of import flows from R&D and knowledge intensive economies for productivity and are consistent with imports being a vehicle for technology diffusion. Tests of the sensitivity of the results suggest that G7 imports are particularly important for firms in high-technology sectors and for firms belonging to multinationals and domestic corporations.

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Paper provided by Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies in its series Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation with number 146.

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Keywords: Technology diffusion; productivity; imports; panel data; GMM;

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L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
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