Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64774 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP18/11
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
We examine the home bias of knowledge spillovers (the idea that knowledge spreads more slowly over international boundaries than within them) as measured by the speed of patent citations. We present econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has fallen over time, as we would expect from the dramatic fall in communication and travel costs. Our proposed estimator controls for correlated fixed effects and censoring in duration models and we apply it to data on over two million patent citations between 1975 and 1999. Home bias is exaggerated in models that do not control for fixed effects. The fall in home bias over time is weaker for the pharmaceuticals and information/communication technology sectors where agglomeration externalities may remain strong.
Subjects: 
fixed effects
home bias
patent citations
knowledge spillovers
JEL: 
O32
O33
F23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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