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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126607
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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution
MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary preferences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928706
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Do rural banks matter? evidence from the Indian social banking experiment
Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745415
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New media, firms, ideas, and growth: European cities after Gutenberg
Dittmar, Jeremiah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
. Local access to printed merchants' manuals used in business education was particularly associated with growth. New micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745227
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Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations
Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We examine the “home bias” of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). We present the first compelling econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071080
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Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations
Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We examine the “home bias” of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). We present the first compelling econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071309