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&D-intensive industries. The theoretical predictions are tested using UK data on the evolution of competition, concentration, innovation …This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R … legislation in the UK had no significant effect on the number of innovations commercialized in previously cartelized R …
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We analyse a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range of socio-demographic, and other, indicators. We find that pro-trade preferences are significantly and robustly correlated with an individual's level of human capital, in the...
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in surveys of professional forecasts survive in equilibrium, and that these markets are remarkably well calibrated …
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This paper develops a simple time-series model of emigration and applies it to data for emigration from the UK between …
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females in the UK have a higher probability to participate in the labour force than non-white females. Non-white females spend …
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Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the … has changed over the quarter century since 1978, using a newly constructed panel data set on donations to individual UK …
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What demand-side and institutional factors raised the skilled wage premium over the 1980s in UK manufacturing? Using a …
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for the UK and the US over various subperiods by means of smooth transition regressions.Results: There is often evidence … inflation targeting period in the UK is characterized by a concave rule supporting recession avoidance preferences, while the …
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The changes in economic policy introduced in the UK after 1979 had a substantial impact on income distribution …
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Existing estimates of the annual unemployment rate from 1870 to 1913 were constructed by the Board of Trade, initially in 1888, and updated thereafter. This is still the series which is widely used and cited. It is based on records of the number unemployed in various trade unions and it has a...
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