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Testing the Pooling Assumption in an Industry Panel of R&D Investment: What Do We Learn?

In this paper, the authors test the pooling assumption for the determinants of industry R&D investment. For a panel of UK manufacturing industries they find that pooling is only valid for output fluctuations, lagged R&D and real interest rates.