International R&D Spillovers and Institutions

David T. Coe, Elhanan Helpman, Alexander W. Hoffmaister

NBER Working Paper No. 14069
Issued in June 2008

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We thank James Stock and Dale Jorgenson for helpful discussions. We also thank Kazim Kazimov, who worked extensively on the data base, as well as Song-Yi Kim and Fritz Pierre-Louis for expert research assistance. Much of the work on this paper was done when David Coe was on sabbatical from the IMF in 2007 visiting the Economics Department at Harvard during March and April and the OECD during June and July; he thanks both for their hospitality. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the International Monetary Fund, any other institution, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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