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Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

During the last years, the renewable energy strategy of the European Union (EU) and the proposed policies and regulations, namely the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), have been heavily discussed among scientific circles and various interest groups. The sustainability of different biofuels and...

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Agricultural Returns and Conflict: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Policy Intervention Programme in Rwanda

Kondylis, Florence - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re-settlement policy on household agricultural...

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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began, until 2005. Laser technology research has been nearly exclusively conducted in regions that are home to a university with a physics or electrical engineering department, an...

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Big ideas: How competition improves management and productivity

Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on policies to foster competition.

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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 Impact of the Diffusion of a Financial Innovation on Company Performance: An Analysis of SWIFT Adoption

Scott, Susan; Reenen, John Van; Zachariadis, Markos - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

How does a major financial network innovation influence firm performance? Despite much speculation we have little hard quantitative evidence about the impact of technology diffusion in financial services. In this paper we use the entire adoption history for SWIFT (the Society for Worldwide...

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Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts

Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Cumulative innovation is central to economic growth. Do patent rights facilitate or impede follow-on innovation? We study the causal effect of removing patent rights by court invalidation on subsequent research related to the focal patent, as measured by later citations. We exploit random...

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Why do Management Practices Differ Across Firms and Countries?

Bloom, Nick; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...

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Wage Inequality,Technology and Trade: 21st Century Evidence

Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skill distribution in recent decades …. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across the OECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A … third of the wage distribution shrinking and those in the bottom and top third rising. I argue that this is because …

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

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