R&D and aggregate fluctuations

Pourpourides, Panayiotis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2986-4094 and Artuc, Erhan 2012. R&D and aggregate fluctuations. [Working Paper]. Cardiff Economics Working Papers, Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://business.cardiff.ac.uk/research/working-pap...

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Abstract

Using US data for the period 1959-2007, we identify sectoral productivity shocks and capital investment-specific shocks by employing a Vector Autoregression whose shock structure is disciplined by a general equilibrium model. Controlling for real and nominal factors, we nd that capital investment-specific shocks explain 70 percent of fluctuations of R&D investment while R&D technology shocks explain 30 percent of the variation of aggregate output net of R&D investment (i.e. the output of the non-R&D sector). Technology shocks jointly explain almost all the variation of output in the R&D sector and 78 percent of the variation of output in the non-R&D sector.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory Q Science > QA Mathematics
Publisher:	Cardiff University
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 07:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/26961

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