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The Impact of Private Ownership, Incentives and Local Development Objectives on University Technology Transfer Performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together …We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …

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Its Not What You Make, Its How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016963

International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...

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Technology Dissemination and Economic Growth: Some Lessons for the New Economy

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper attempts to draw lessons for the New Economy from what economists know about technology dissemination and …

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Is Poland the Next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

efficiently. The other margin (within industry) reflects capital deepening and technology catchup at the industry level. In …

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Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

In this paper we distinguish different "qualities" of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...

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Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Murphy, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores. By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases...

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The shrinking middle

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Guy Michaels and colleagues show how new technologies are polarising the labour market, with the middle-skilled losing out most

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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 Years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542740

Wage Inequality,Technology and Trade: 21st Century Evidence

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

good fraction of this inequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workers … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected. Finally, I argue that technology is …

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