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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry
Bloom, Nicholas; Schankerman, Mark; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years …. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers": a positive … effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and negative business stealing effects from product market rivals. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670643
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Corporate R&D and Productivity in Germany and the United Kingdom
Bond, Stephen; Harhoff, Dietmar; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016788
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Span of Control and Span of Activity
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543481
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In brief: Two cheers for Anglo-Saxon financial markets?
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549053
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721416
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How Special is the Special Relationship? Using the Impact of US R&D Spillovers on UK Firms as a Test of Technology Sourcing
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improvehome country productivity. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797205
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Productivity and Business Policies
Roland, Isabelle; Valero, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and … average. Chronically low investment especially in infrastructure and innovation, poor management and weak intermediate skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203044
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670440