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Membership has its priveleges : the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers

Gomez, Rafael; Santor, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social capital - social relations that facilitate individual action – is essential …

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Market structure and borrower welfare in microfinance

Fetzer, Thiemo; de Quidt, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, we analyze borrower …

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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

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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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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …

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