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Strategic investment, industry concentration and the cross section of returns

Bustamante, Maria Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

competition a¤ects the industrial dynamics of investment, concentration, and expected returns. When firms have similar production …

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Fluctuations in uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

question, the evidence suggests uncertainty is damaging for short-run investment and hiring, but there is some evidence it may …

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Investing for prosperity: skills, infrastructure and innovation

Besley, Timothy; Coelho, Miguel; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

, major weaknesses with respect to long-run investment in human capital, infrastructure and innovation remain. These are … hampered by problems of short-termism and policy risk. We propose a series of radical reforms to address these problems: such …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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The causal effects of an industrial policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

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Investment choice and inflation uncertainty

Fischer, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between infation uncertainty and investment using a panel of loan-level data … investment. Moreover, there is a shift in the composition of investment away from fixed assets and towards working capital - the … more flexible factor of production - and fixed asset investment exhibits periods of inaction consistent with real option …

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Decentralization schemes, cost-benefit-analysis, and net national product as a measure of social well-being

Dasgupta, Partha; Maler, Karl-Goran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper is about net national product (NNP). We are concerned with what NNP means, what it should include, what it offers us and, therefore, why we may be interested in it. We show that NNP, properly defined, can be used as a gauge for project evaluation, but we also show that it should not...

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The marginal product of capital

Caselli, Francesco; Feyrer, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic development and patterns of capital flows. We use easily accessible macroeconomic data to shed light on this issue, and find that MPKs are...

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On the detrimental impact of visa restrictions on bilateral trade and foreign direct investment

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article estimates the effect of visa restrictions on bilateral trade flows and foreign direct investment (FDI … effects, it is at least questionable whether many of the existing visa restrictions would pass a cost-benefit test. …

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The impact of uncertainty shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation

Bloom, Nick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …

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