Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 129
Cover Image
Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?
Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745346
Cover Image
Americans do I.T. better: US multinationals and the productivity miracle
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071454
Cover Image
Productivity growth and the role of ICT in the United Kingdom: an industry view, 1970-2000
Oulton, Nicholas; Srinivasan, Sylaja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970-2000. The dataset is for 34 industries covering the whole economy (31 in the market sector). Using growth accounting, we find that ICT capital played an increasingly important, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745929
Cover Image
Estimating US fiscal and monetary interactions in a time varying VAR
Gerba, Eddie; Hauzenberger, Klemens - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We contribute to the growing empirical literature on monetary and fiscal interactions by applying a sign restriction identification scheme to a structural TVP-VAR in order to disentangle and evaluate the policy shocks and policy transmissions. This in turn allows us to study the Great Recession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125926
Cover Image
Estimating US fiscal and monetary interactions in a time varying VAR
Gerba, Eddie; Hauzenberger, Klemens - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We contribute to the growing empirical literature on monetary and fiscal interactions by applying a sign restriction identification scheme to a structural TVP-VAR in order to disentangle and evaluate the policy shocks and policy transmissions. This in turn allows us to study the Great Recession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126653
Cover Image
Why do regions develop and change?: the challenge for geography and economics
Storper, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed frameworks in recent years that, while tackling major questions in spatial economic development, are deficient in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126237
Cover Image
Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the East and the West
Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126360
Cover Image
Is Poland the next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both … Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745276
Cover Image
Investing for prosperity: skills, infrastructure and innovation
Besley, Timothy; Coelho, Miguel; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
What policies and institutions are needed to sustain long-run growth in the UK? We describe an optimistic story of the UK economy over the past 30 years. From the late 1970s, the UK reversed a century of relative decline in terms of per capita GDP with our main counterparts in the US, France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125977
Cover Image
The conflict trap in the Greek Civil War 1946-1949: an economic approach
Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
The paper provides a quantitative analysis of the armed confrontation that took place in Greece between the Communist Party and the Centre-Right Government during 1946-1949. Using monthly data for battle casualties a dynamic Lotka-Volterra framework is estimated, pointing to the existence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126480