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Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...

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Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?

Lychagin, Sergey; Pinkse, Joris; Slade, Margaret E.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Using US firm level panel data we simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three potential sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technological, and product market ("horizontal"). To do so, we construct new measures of geographic proximity based on the...

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The Costs of Urban Property Crime

Gibbons, Steve - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper estimates the impact of recorded domestic property crime on property prices in the London area. Crimes in the Criminal Damage category have a significant negative impact on prices. Burglaries have no measurable impact on prices, even after allowing for the potential dependence of...

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Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology and Competition: Evidence from France

Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

geography. The same economic forces influence simulataneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering …

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Cross Country Growth Comparison: Theory to Empirics

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth û both empirical and theoretical û distinguish from previous work in three distinct...

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Mapping the Two Faces of R&D: Productivity Growth in a Panel of OECD Industries

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

capacity'). In this paper we document that there has been convergence of TFP within a panel of industries across thirteen OECD …

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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Keulenaer, Femke De; Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Kavetsos, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth is experienced. We find that measures of life satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to...

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The Role of Educational Quality and Quantity in the Process of Economic Development

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Hidalgo-Cabrillana, Ana - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We develop a theory of human capital investment to study the channels through which students react to school quality when deciding on investments in secondary education and above, and to study how educational quality affects economic growth. In a dynamic general equilibrium closed economy,...

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