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Does pharmaceutical price regulation affect the adoption of generic competition?: evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Varol, Nebibe; McGuire, Alistair - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to investigate how price regulations in the OECD affect the adoption of … heterogeneity. Ex-ante profit expectations result in faster adoption; both expected price and market size increase the probability … adoption across different specifications. Instead, evidence indicates that generic competitors follow a locally oriented …

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Do comprehensive performance measurement systems help or hinder managers' mental model development?

Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This study examines whether and how the process of updating and changing mental models (learning) helps to explain how performance measurement systems (PMS) affect individual performance. Although prior studies (e.g., Hall, 2008; Burney and Widener, 2007; Burney et al., 2009) highlight the important...

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The power of the interviewer: a qualitative perspective on African survey data collection

Randall, Sara; Coast, Ernestina; Compaore, Natacha; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

through training and supervision. Many survey concepts are difficult to translate into African languages and some, such as … households, interviewers, supervisors, trainers, survey organisers and analysts along the chain of data production and use in … an ability to follow precise wording. In Africa, where survey concepts are often different from local concepts and where …

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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New media, firms, ideas, and growth: European cities after Gutenberg

Dittmar, Jeremiah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Gutenberg's printing press was the great revolution in Renaissance information technology. This paper presents new evidence on media markets, knowledge transmission, and city growth across Europe 1450-1600. The paper construct- s comprehensive firm-level panel data on the number and subjects of...

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Information technology, organization, and productivity in the public sector: evidence from police departments

Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is …

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Information technology, organisational change and productivity growth: evidence from UK firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (∆O) using UK firm data. Consistent with the small number of other micro studies we find (a) IT appears to have high returns in a growth accounting sense when ∆O is omitted; when ∆O is included...

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Americans do I.T. better: US multinationals and the productivity miracle

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then...

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Emergency purchasing situations: implications for consumer decision-making

Samson, Alain; Voyer, Benjamin G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This article introduces the Emergency Purchasing Situation (EPS) as a distinct buying context. EPSs stem from an unexpected event (unanticipated need or timing of a need), as well as high product importance, which are associated with a short time frame for consumer decision-making. Our...

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Study on university-business cooperation in the US

Ranga, Marina; Hoareau, Cecile; Durazzi, Niccolo; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

University-Business Cooperation (UBC) is a relationship in flux, reflecting issues specific to the transition from an industrial to a knowledge society. UBC is undergoing a transformation from a dyadic university-business relationship, aimed at solving firm problems, sourcing new products or...

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