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The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition
Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant elasticity demand, each firm prices above its average cost, yet we show …
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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...
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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...
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In brief: Can industrial policy boost jobs?
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
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Growth and productivity: UK economic performance since 1997
Corry, Dan; Valero, Anna; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the "economic pie" available to the citizens of a country. …
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Long and Short-Term Effects of the Financial Crisis on Labour Productivity, Capital and Output
Oulton, Nicholas; Sebastiá-Barriel, María - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
The behaviour of labour productivity in the United Kingdom since the onset of the recession in early 2008 constitutes a … puzzle. Over four years after the recession began labour productivity is still below its previous peak level. This paper … crisis to have both a short-run effect on the growth rate of labour productivity and a long-run effect on its level is …
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Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment
Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610738
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What are the Channels for Technology Sourcing? Panel Data Evidence from German Companies
Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, Elisabeth; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of ln earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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Relaxing Credit Constraints in Emerging Economies: The Impact of Public Loans on the Performance of Brazilian Manufacturers
Sousa, Filipe Lage de; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Especially in developing countries credit constraints are often perceived as one of the most important market frictions constraining firm innovation and growth. Huge amounts of public money are being devoted to the removal of such constraints but their effectiveness is still subject to an...
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