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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change
Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access …A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import …
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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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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Strategic patenting is widely believed to raise the costs of innovating, especially in industries characterised by cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744919
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Strategic patenting is widely believed to raise the costs of innovating, especially in industries characterised by cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746431
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International spillovers and absorptive capacity: a cross-country, cross-sector analysis based on European patents and citations
Mancusi, Maria Luisa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
spillovers are always found to be effective in increasing innovative productivity. The paper then uses self-citations to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071485
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Rise of the machines: the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...
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Timeliness, trade and agglomeration
Harrigan, James; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight charges. The difference arises because of uncertainty. Unsynchronised deliveries can disrupt...
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Empirics for growth and distribution
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928725
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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 …, which is detrimental to trade and FDI. Employing a standard gravity-type model in a global dyadic country sample, I estimate … place by the partner country, this lowers bilateral trade and FDI by up to 19 and 25 per cent, respectively. If both …
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Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry
Roy, Tirthankar - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
The article explores the link between international economic integration and technological capability in colonial India. The example of the iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with commercial success. The essay suggests a reason why....
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