U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Investment and Technical Change in U.S. and French Industrial Firms

这项为期三年的奖项支持美法关于美国和法国工业企业投资和技术变革的合作研究项目的继续。下一阶段将包括欧洲其他主要经济体的公司数据。国家经济研究局的Zvi Griliches、加州大学伯克利分校的Bronwyn Hall和Jacques Mairesse以及法国国家经济与统计组织的其他研究人员参与了这项研究。研究人员将继续：(1)开发公司级投资和公司级研究与开发的决定因素；(2)使用估计方法对异质公司行为进行建模；(3)在公司级衡量资本利用及其在生产中的作用。这一合作利用了法国的互补专业知识，并提供了访问法国和经合组织国家的大型数据集的机会。它将推进建立工业企业国际数据集的努力，以便进行国际比较研究。

This three-year award supports continuation of a US-France cooperative research project on investment and technical changes in American and French industrial firms. This next phase will include data on firms in other major European economies. The collaboration involves Zvi Griliches at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Bronwyn Hall at the University of California, Berkeley and Jacques Mairesse and other researchers at the Group des Ecoles Nationales d'Economie et Statistique in France. The investigators will continue to: (1) develop determinants of firm-level investment and firm-level research and development; (2) model heterogeneous firm behavior using methods of estimation; and (3) measure capital utilization and its role in production at the firm level. The collaboration takes advantage of complementary expertise in France and provides access to large data sets in France and OECD countries. It will advance efforts to construct an international data set on industrial firms for comparative international studies.