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Cotton Textiles and the Great Divergence: Lancashire, India and Shifting Competitive Advantage, 1600-1850
Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The growth of cotton textile imports into Britain from India opened up new opportunities for import substitution as the new cloths, patterns and designs became increasingly fashionable. However, high silver wages in Britain as a result of high productivity in other tradable goods and services,...
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Options to Quit
Pfann, Gerard Antonie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal quit behaviour for a worker who holds an option to quit but faces a fixed cost of quitting. A worker will accept the outside offer only if the net present value of the difference in expected future cash flows associated with the old and the new...
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Patterns of Restructuring: The U.S. Class 1 Railroads from 1984 to 2004
Friebel, Guido; McCullough, Gerard; Padilla Angulo, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
downsizing works best when accompanied by strategic restructuring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504707
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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036241
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Improving Nurse Retention in the National Health Service in England: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit
Shields, Michael; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In recent years the British National Health Service (NHS) has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this Paper, we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses and...
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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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Long-term Relationships: Static Gains and Dynamic Inefficiencies
Hemous, David; Olsen, Morten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …
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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS
Kyle, Margaret K; McGahan, Anita M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...
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Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation
de Mouzon, Oliver; Dubois, Pierre; Scott Morton, Fiona; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper quantifies the relationship between market size and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. We estimate … the elasticity of innovation, as measured by the number of new chemical entities appearing on the market for a given … the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming more difficult and expensive over time, as costs of …
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