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Knowledge-based economic development: mass media and the weightless economy
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and commu- nications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetra- tion are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071188
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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
We model the coordination of specialised tasks inside an organisation as "attribute matching". Using this method, we compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In our framework, organisational forms affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928762
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Do asset regulations impede portfolio diversification? evidence from European life insurance funds
Bijapur, Mohan; Croci, Manuela; Zaidi, Rida - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
economically and statistically significant negative impact on risk-adjusted returns of approximately 1-2 percentage points, holding … constant other relevant factors. The use of explicit limits on asset allocation can be a blunt instrument for regulating risk …-taking, in that they impede investment managers’ ability to exploit the benefits of portfolio diversification, and thus distort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126157
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126145
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Risk-adjusted poverty in Argentina: measurement and determinants
Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746011
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A fetish and fiction of finance: unraveling the subprime crisis
Pani, Erica; Holman, Nancy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
risk. To do so, the article unravels the much-misunderstood experiences of eight Norwegian municipalities whose investments … analytical concepts—“the fetishization of the knowledge of risk” and “fictitious distance”—to help explain how the crisis spread …
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