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Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany

Bond, Stephen; Harhoff, Dietmar; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994. For German firms, cash flow is not informative in simple econometric models of fixed investment or R&D. In identical specifications for...

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Corporate R&D and productivity in Germany and the United Kingdom

Bond, Stephen; Harhoff, Dietmar; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms. We confirm that German firms spend significantly larger amounts on R&D than their UK counterparts, even after controlling for firm size and industry effects. Using a dynamic...

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Innovation, reallocation and growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

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

Support for R&D subsidies relies on empirical evidence that R&D "spills over" between firms. But firm performance is affected by two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative business stealing effects from R&D by product market rivals. We develop a...

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Does hospital competition save lives?: evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms

Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

improvements in clinical quality. In January 2006, the British Government introduced a major extension of their market …. This paper assesses whether this aim has been achieved and competition led to improvements in quality. For our estimation … analyze whether quality improved more quickly in more competitive markets after the government introduced its new wave of …

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Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms

Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

quality. We use a difference-in-difference-style estimator to test whether hospital quality (measured using mortality from …. We find that after the reforms were implemented, mortality fell (i.e. quality improved) for patients living in more … competitive markets. Our results suggest that hospital competition can lead to improvements in hospital quality. …

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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Cultural diversity, cities and innovation: firm effects or city effects?

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

diverse cities helping firms innovate. This paper uses a dataset of over 2,000 UK SMEs to test between these two. Controlling …

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Semiparametric estimation of a binary response model with a change-point due to a covariate threshold

Lee, Sokbae; Seo, Myung Hwan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper is concerned with semiparametric estimation of a threshold binary response model. The estimation method considered in the paper is semiparametric since the parameters for a regression function are finite-dimensional, while allowing for heteroskedasticity of unknown form. In...

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