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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and …

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The Impact of the Diffusion of a Financial Innovation on Company Performance: An Analysis of SWIFT Adoption

Scott, Susan; Reenen, John Van; Zachariadis, Markos - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

quantitative evidence about the impact of technology diffusion in financial services. In this paper we use the entire adoption …

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Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and Knowledge Spillovers

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, we study how geography affects university knowledge spillovers. Citations to patents decline sharply with distance up to about 150 miles and are strongly constrained by state borders. Distance also constrains...

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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

Cockburn, Iain; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

more profitable, also speed up diffusion. The effects are robust to using instruments to control for endogeneity of policy … regimes. The results point to an important role for patents and other policy choices in driving the diffusion of new …

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