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Gustavo Crespi is affiliated with the Inter-American Development Bank in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with significant contributions across subfields such as economics and econometrics, general economics, econometrics and finance, and strategy and management.

The main topics of Gustavo Crespi's work involve economic growth and productivity, innovation policy and R&D, fiscal policy and economic growth, firm innovation and growth, regional economics and spatial analysis, global trade and economics, and intellectual capital and performance analysis.

Among Crespi's recent papers are:

  • "Trends and determinants of innovation in Asia and the Pacific vs. Latin America and the Caribbean" (2021), published in Journal of Policy Modeling
  • "Public support to R&D, productivity, and spillover effects: Firm-level evidence from Chile" (2020), published in World Development
  • "How effective are cluster development policies? Evidence from Uruguay" (2020), published in World Development Perspectives
  • "The Impact of Intangible Capital on Productivity and Wages: Firm level evidence from Peru" (2024), published in Estudios de economía

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gustavo Crespi include:

  • Irfan Qureshi
  • Donghyun Park
  • José Miguel Benavente
  • Lucas Figal Garone
  • Alessandro Maffioli

Crespi's work has appeared in several publication venues, reflecting a range of interests:

  • Journal of Policy Modeling
  • World Development
  • World Development Perspectives
  • Estudios de economía

In addition to journal articles, Crespi has contributed to book publications, notably with the Inter-American Development Bank eBooks. Among these is the book titled What Works to Improve Lives?: What Works to Foster Productive Sector Development, published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries

    Gustavo Crespi;Pluvia Zuniga

  • Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey

    Paola Giuri;Myriam Mariani;Stefano Brusoni;Gustavo Crespi

  • Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Small Firms

    Roberto Alvarez;Gustavo Crespi;Gustavo Crespi

  • Productivity, exporting, and the learning-by-exporting hypothesis: direct evidence from UK firms

    Gustavo Crespi;Chiara Criscuolo;Jonathan Haskel

  • The impact of academic patenting on university research and its transfer

    Gustavo Crespi;Pablo D’Este;Roberto Fontana;Aldo Geuna;Aldo Geuna;Aldo Geuna

  • Productivity growth, knowledge flows and spillovers

    Gustavo Crespi;Chiara Criscuolo;Jonathan Haskel;Matthew Slaughter

  • The European university landscape: A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project

    Cinzia Daraio;Andrea Bonaccorsi;Aldo Geuna;Benedetto Lepori

  • Rethinking Productive Development

    Gustavo Crespi;Gustavo Crespi;Eduardo Fernández-Arias;Ernesto Stein

  • Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity

    Gustavo Crespi;Chiara Criscuolo;Jonathan Haskel

  • An empirical study of scientific production: A cross country analysis, 1981–2002

    Gustavo A. Crespi;Aldo Geuna;Aldo Geuna

  • Effects of innovation on employment in Latin America

    Gustavo Crespi;Ezequiel Tacsir

  • Rethinking productive development : sound policies and institutions for economic transformation

    Gustavo Crespi;Eduardo Fernandez-Arias;Ernesto Stein

  • The Impact of National Research Funds: A Regression Discontinuity Approach to the Chilean FONDECYT

    Jose Miguel Benavente;Gustavo Crespi;Lucas Figal Garone;Alessandro Maffioli

  • The mobility of university inventors in Europe

    Gustavo A. Crespi;Gustavo A. Crespi;Aldo Geuna;Lionel Nesta

  • Innovation strategies and employment in Latin American firms

    Gustavo A. Crespi;Pluvia Zuniga

  • ¿Cómo repensar el desarrollo productivo?: Políticas e instituciones sólidas para la transformación económica

    Manuel R. Agosin;Eduardo Fernández-Arias;Gustavo Crespi;Alessandro Maffioli

  • Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (but Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

    Paola Giuri;Myriam Mariani;Stefano Brusoni;Gustavo Crespi

  • Heterogeneous effects of financial constraints on innovation: Evidence from Chile

    Roberto Álvarez;Gustavo A. Crespi

  • The effectiveness of tax incentives for R&D+i in developing countries: The case of Argentina

    Gustavo Crespi;David Giuliodori;Roberto Giuliodori;Alejandro Rodriguez

  • Public Support to Firm-Level Innovation: An Evaluation of the FONTEC Program

    Jose Miguel Benavente;Gustavo Crespi;Alessandro Maffioli

  • Information technology, organisational change and productiivity growth: Evidence from UK firms

    Gustavo Crespi;Chiara Criscuolo;Jonathan Haskel

  • The Impact of Academic Patenting on University Research and Its Transfer

    Aldo Geuna;Gustavo Crespi;Pablo D'Este;Roberto Fontana

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Pietrobelli
Carlo Pietrobelli Roma Tre University
Roberta Rabellotti
Roberta Rabellotti University of Pavia

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